Sr. Architect, IT Architecture

Canon U.S.A., Inc., headquartered in Lake Success, New York, is a leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Our extensive product line and digital solutions enable businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store, and distribute information. Canon products include color and black-and-white copiers, printers, image filing systems, facsimile machines, cameras and lenses, camcorders, semiconductor, broadcast, and optical equipment, flatbed scanners, and other specialized industrial products. We are recognized by Fortune as one of the "Most Admired Companies in America", ranked #35 on the Business Week list of "Top 100 Brands", and are driven by our passion for technological innovation along with our deep commitment to social and environmental responsibility. We offer a competitive benefits package, educational assistance, profit sharing, and a large array of training opportunities to our valued employees.
Overview
Specialty Description:
E-Commerce/Web Architect will be responsible for assisting in setting corporate direction for how the company will exploit technology in building and delivering Web/e-Commerce solutions. This key individual will be responsible for architecting new Web/e-Commerce systems, evaluating Web/e-Commerce based packages, technologies and tools, working with the business and other IT groups in enabling the creation of new Web/e-Commerce enterprises or expanding business onto the Web. This individual will be working with the operations staff (Server Admin, DBA, etc.), IT Sr. Management, business management, and vendors in resolution of highly complex technical problems.


Responsibilities:
 Assists in planning of short- and long-term strategic planning of Web/e-Commerce technology direction for the organization.
 Performs and/or organizes the evaluation or prototyping of Web/E-Commerce based software to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of introducing these technologies into the environment
 Develops presentations to assist in presenting new technologies to sr. management
 Acts as a primary architect that develops architectural plans, diagrams, etc. as part of a project team.
 Assist with responses to security exploitations and compromises as required
 Suggest Web/e-Commerce standards and processes
 Work closely with other technology teams as required to prioritize activities and insure compliance to corporate and legal policies

Qualifications
Required Skills:
 Must be able to understand business requirements, strategies and processes and understand the implication to system operations
 Must be able to work with third party vendors
 Must have advanced problem solving skills
 Must have good verbal and written communication skills
 Must have the ability to work independently and within a team environment
 Must be self motivated, able to plan work effort and manage to the project schedule and priorities
 Knowledge of network architecture, client/server processing, and object-oriented analysis and design
 The ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions
 The ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements
 The ability to estimate the financial impact of alternatives
 The ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems
 Ability to make financial evaluations and develop proposals regarding current/future systems capabilities and requirements.
 Familiarity in TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SOAP, DNS, LDAP, FTP, JDBC, ODBC
 Extensive knowledge in Web based technologies
 Familiarity in JSP, Java, J2EE, CGI, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Perl
 Familiarity in Web search engines
 Familiarity in state-full non state-full application designs
 Extensive knowledge in multi tier, multi server, redundant server web application farms
Nice to have product knowledge:
 IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft IIS
 E-Commerce Engines - IBM Commerce Server a plus
 LDAP




 

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