job summary: location: Charlotte, North Carolina job type: Contract salary: $75 - 80 per hour work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors responsibilities: Job Responsibilities: Establish the division's architecture capability in alignment with the IT vision, business objectives, industry trends, and risk/compliance policies.Create and maintain an architecture repository, document templates, and lifecycle processes for architecture artifacts (e.g., technology capability models, reference architectures, technical specifications/designs, standards/principles).Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with IT/business objectives, industry trends, and risk/compliance policies.Collaborate with domain experts to document the current technology landscape and architecture roadmaps using viewpoints tailed to diverse audiences including engineers, product management, security/compliance teams, and business/IT leaders.Leverage insights from emerging technologies, proof-of-concepts, intentional architecture, and emergent architecture to guide domain leads in the development of consumable technology components (e.g., software libraries, tools, frameworks).Manage and facilitate the architecture review board (ARB), including governance, processes, membership, intake, prioritization, meeting organization, decision-making, conflict resolution, documentation, and continuous improvement of ARB practices.Foster relationships with stakeholders and partner organizations (e.g., application development, infrastructure, information security, data, product management, delivery management).Contribute to IT goals, objectives, planning, and budgeting processes.Adopt a Developer Experience (DevEx) mindset to ensure architecture products and services offer tangible value to software and system engineers. qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 10 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors skills: AWS Cloud FormationHTMLJavascriptVB.NET Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.