Enterprise Architect

Guild Mortgage Company, closing loans and opening doors since 1960. As a mortgage banking firm we are dedicated to serving the home owner/buyer. Our goal is to provide affordable home financing for our customers, utilizing the best terms available while providing a level of professionalism and service unsurpassed in the lending industry.

Position Summary

The Enterprise Architect plays an important role in the organization by performing a variety of activities directly related to the organizations Information Technology functions. The role is responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of IT architecture models and other various components. This role is required to interpret, use and apply information contained within IT architecture to inform a range of business improvement activities, particularly those involved in the design, development, enhancement and maintenance of IT support systems. The Enterprise Architect is expected to ensure that the overall ICT architecture is maintained in a coherent manner and that appropriate considerations are made for its security and quality. The primary role of the Enterprise Architect is to ensure that the respective business, application, data and technology perspectives are in line with the organizations technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.

Essential Functions

* Create architecture solutions, diagrams and documents to solve Information Technology and business challenges, equating to application and solutions architecture mastery.
* Recommend and participate in the design, development and implementation of standards, tools and methodologies.
* Collaborate with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of each solution and determine conformance; recommend the most suitable technical architecture and define the solution at a high level.
* Guide the design to obtain a system that fits in the customer and business context.
* Create and communicate the integral understanding of identified problems and their respective solutions.
* Research overall information and communications technology solutions on the market for particular technical requirements and business needs.
* Conduct and/or actively participate in meetings related to designated project(s) with applicable stakeholders.
* Partner with and represent the business viewpoint/interests for all the enterprise architecture disciplines (infrastructure, application, security, data, business architecture) in standards/governance maturity discussions.
* Provide architecture thought leadership when selecting tools and setting standards; advise and recommend enterprise architecture strategies, processes and methodologies.
* Assist in maturing enterprise architecture management practices.
* Execute on and move from tactical solutions management to think broadly and strategically about the business.
* Ensure compliance with architecture standards.
* Participate in leadership discussions regarding new technology introduction and/or enterprise system planning activities.
* Evaluate and approve all 3rd party engagements (including approval of renewal contracts) and approve contracts.
* Recommend and participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that the EA objectives are consistent with the enterprises long-term business objectives.
* Share best practices, lessons learned and consistently update the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current and upcoming vendor products and solutions.
* Identify and recommend areas appropriate for further study and participate in any Proof of Concept projects required to thoroughly investigate architectural possibilities and strengthen arguments for their adoption.
* Identify implementation risks and analyze potential impact on the enterprise and on the achievement of scheduled objectives.
* Recommend and participate in the design and implementation of standards, tools and methodologies.

Qualifications

* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related, along with 7+ years of progressive technology and leadership experience required.
* Certification in two or more of the following areas: TOGAF, MCSE, MCSD, MCTS, CCNA, Java, Linux, Oracle Experience as technical lead for a major technology implementation.
* Broad technology experience, including complex systems integration and infrastructure expertise.
* Demonstrated success in leveraging technology to meet business objectives.
* History of engaging with CEO and EVP, CIO customers and external clients.
* Proven track record of effective working relationships with executives and key business partners to drive change agendas.
* Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective.
* History of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals and achieving them through intelligent actions, balancing competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution.
* Experience leading through influence in a large, matrixed, global environment.
* Outstanding collaboration, strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills.
* Innovative orientation
* Experience working on Contact Center, Workforce Management and/or other Consumer facing architecture strongly preferred. (adjust to Guilds consumer facing architecture)
* Prior experiences developing market and vendor partnerships of value.
* Ethical, with a commitment to company values.

Requirements

Travel:
0-10%

Physical: Work is primarily sedentary; mobility in an office setting.

Manual Dexterity: Frequent use of computer keyboard and mouse.

Audio/Visual: Ability to accurately interpret sounds and associated meanings at a volume consistent with interpersonal conversation. Regularly required to accurately perceive, distinguish and interpret information received visually and through audio; e.g., words, numbers and other data broadcasted aloud/viewed on a screen, as well as print and other media.

Environmental: Office environment no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions

Guild offers a pleasant work environment, competitive compensation and excellent benefits package; including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, LTD and 401(k) with employer match. Guild Mortgage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Account Executive, Enterprise Sales

Yext puts business on the map. The Yext Knowledge Engine lets companies manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100 services in the PowerListings® Network. Yext Listings, Pages, and Reviews help businesses around the globe facilitate face-to-face and digital interactions that boost brand awareness, drive foot traffic, and increase sales.

The rapidly growing Enterprise Division is a cross functional team of Sales, Account Managers and Business Development Representatives responsible for growing Yexts revenues. With a focus on Fortune 50-500 brands across the United States and global chain businesses internationally, we work with brands across Automotive, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Retail and more.

Account Executives on the Enterprise Sales team are responsible for selling to Yexts Enterprise clients. You are committed to winning and taking advantage of the untapped customer base that could benefit from Yexts product offering. With a sales model that fosters collaboration and supports your success, this is a great opportunity to forge a successful sales career.

Responsibilities
* Prospect and develop sales opportunities within Yexts Enterprise sales segment
* Manage complete and complex sales-cycles often presenting to C-level executives the value of our full suite of applications
* Forecast sales activity and revenue achievement, while creating satisfied customers
* Evangelize the Yext vision through product demonstrations, in-market events, and account specific initiatives
* Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business sales
* Territory/ Vertical identification and research, to formalize a go-to-market strategy and create qualified target accounts
* Pipeline development through a combination of cold calling, email campaigns and market sector knowledge/intelligence
* Manage the end-to-end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners etc.
* Exceed plan

Minimum Requirements
* BA/BS degree. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience
* 2+ years of quota carrying software or technology solution sales and account management experience
* Experience managing the sales cycle from business champion to the C-level
* Track record of success in carrying a quota, closing Fortune 1000 deals
* Track record of over-achieving quota (top 10-20% of company) in past positions
* Experience managing and closing complex sales cycles- demonstrated ownership of all aspects of territory management
* Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets
* Strong and demonstrated written, verbal and presentation skills

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

Yext offers the following exceptional benefits: competitive compensation, 401k, unlimited snacks, daily meal allowance, flexible hours / paid time off, and excellent health / dental / vision insurance. Our mission is to help people go places”both consumers to our customers doorsteps and our employees to new heights in their careers. We treat our employees well and offer tremendous growth opportunities. Challenging work pushes our people to be creative in a casual environment that is caring, fun, and collaborative. We believe that when you have smart, happy people working together you can produce something special.

About

Yext is based in the heart of New York City, with offices operating in Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. Yext has been recognized as one of Americas fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 (2015 & 2016), one of Forbes Most Promising Companies (2014 & 2015), and one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work (2014, 2015, & 2016). Most recently, Yext was named the #1 Workplace in New York City by Great Place to Work® and Fortune.

You can learn more about the Yext team and culture on the muse, our website, and blog.

Yext is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Enterprise Security Architect

Moving Mobility Forward

We are Aptiv – a new technology company with a proven history of enabling mobility. Operating as Delphi, we pioneered advances in the industry. Now, as Aptiv, we’re more dedicated than ever to bringing the next generation of autonomous vehicles, smart cities and connectivity to life.

Join Our Innovative Team

Want to do more than just imagine the ways our world will move tomorrow? Here’s your opportunity. Join the technology company that’s transforming the future of mobility today.

About Aptiv

Aptiv is an advanced technology company with a proven history of enabling mobility. We’re dedicated to bringing

the next generation of autonomous vehicles, smart cities and connectivity to life. Aptiv.com

Imagine a world with zero road fatalities, zero injuries and zero accidents… and we need you to help us shape it. Join the Aptiv team and become an entrepreneur at a 100-year-old start up – imagining, creating and inventing to help us prepare for the future. When you join the Aptiv team, you join a team of visionaries, thinkers and go-getters. A team that is enthusiastically molding and creating the future of mobility. A team that is making it possible. And you can be part of the possibilities.

Aptiv is a high technology company serving the automotive sector with an unsurpassable passion to power the way to a better drive…and a better future. We collaborate, innovate, and execute with excellence, working hard to deliver the future of driving to our customers – now.

For more than 100 years, we’ve been shaping the automotive industry with many technology firsts. And we’re far from done. Come join an amazing global IT team that is enabling our enterprise shift from automotive to high-tech. We need your skills and experience to help us drive new team strategies, streamline our execution, and work together in new ways to create the future Aptiv.

Summary of Position:

The Enterprise Security Architect is responsible for the Strategy and Roadmap for Security technologies. The Enterprise Security Architect will work closely with Security Architects and other EA domains like Applications, Infrastructure, Cloud, Network and Security as well as with the business in order to identify, recommend, develop, and support cost-effective Security solutions and technologies for all aspects of the organization. The Enterprise Security Architect reports directly to the Domain Architecture Lead and is part of Enterprise Architecture which is part of the broader Strategy & Architecture IT Organization.

The Enterprise Security Architect will be an effective communicator and leader. She/he will be able to conceptualize, plan, document and communicate effectively. The ideal candidate will possess energy and develop value added service definitions. They will thrive in an innovative, diverse, global and collaborative working environment.

In return, the candidate will help lead change. They will initiate and deliver technology evaluations and recommendations, develop technology and architecture roadmaps, develop and maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints, solve complex problems with many variables, and be a Security Subject Matter Expert in the development of solutions in support the business and communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies. This organization has responsibility and supports a global network consisting of 300 locations supporting 50,000 end users.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities of this position are related to developing standards to achieve the target state architecture and roadmap of Security solutions used by Aptiv.

Some of the specific responsibilities of this role include:

* Develop and maintain current and planned state architectural documents – domain roadmaps, standards, reference architecture, implementation documents
* Assess vendor capabilities, development, and test strategies
* Lead working groups and work collaboratively with other domain enterprise and solution architects to deliver a comprehensive technology roadmap and future state vision.
* Stay abreast of how Security technologies are currently impacting and driving competitors.
* Perform Security modeling, analysis, and planning
* Determine capacity limitations within designs and outline growth strategies
* Review and provide input to Security designs, implementation plans, and project timelines for various projects
* Assist in determining production direction and assist in root cause analysis of escalations of operational issues
* Solve complex problems with many variables.
* Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organization’s technologies and architecture
* Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies
* Initiate and deliver technology evaluations and recommendations
* Analyze business requirements to develop technical solutions and their framework
* Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies.
* Review new and existing program/project architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.
* Participates as a Security Subject Matter expert in the development of solutions in support of new business and tools expansion.

* Identify gaps in Security capabilities, standards, and roadmaps.

Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering.
* 7+ years’ experience designing global security systems including identifying technical limitations and future opportunities.
* 7+ years’ experience and knowledge of the best available tools, software, applications, and systems that support security technologies and real-time security performance management.
* 7+ years’ experience with security technologies and trends including IAM, SSO, OKTA, SAML, Azure, Active Directory, wireless, WAN, application firewalls, network security.
* 7+ years’ experience with Cisco, Riverbed, cloud services like Azure & AWS, Fortinet, blade switches from HP and Dell, and security solutions from Sourcefire, Fire-eye and similar.
* 7+ years’ in-depth experience with developing strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architecture/implementation of security solutions.
* 7+ years’ experience and technical knowledge of a wide range of infrastructure components, PC, and platform operating systems.
* 7+ years’ of Project Management experience.
* 7+ years’ experience creating physical and logical diagrams and flowcharting techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrated ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
* Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.

Traits We Seek:
* Curiously investigate everything – ability to solving problems analytically, creatively and collaboratively
* Lead with confidence – thought leaders who empower those around them
* Learn by doing – an entrepreneurial mindset that’s driven by hands-on experimentation
* Embrace resilience – seeing every challenge as a learning opportunity and invitation to grow

Aptiv Rewards and Advantages:
* Competitive compensation with bonus potential
* Competitive health benefits
* 401K with matching contribution
* Learning and development opportunities
* Discount programs with various manufacturers and retailers
* Recognition for innovation and excellence
* Opportunities to give back to the community
* Meaningful work that makes a difference in the world
* Relocation assistance (if applicable)

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