Business Unit Description

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a membership of nearly 38 million that helps people turn their goals and dreams into 'Real Possibilities' by changing the way America defines aging. With staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, AARP works to strengthen communities and promote the issues that matter most to families such as healthcare security, financial security and personal fulfillment. AARP also advocates for individuals in the marketplace by selecting products and services of high quality and value to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the world’s largest circulation magazine, AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin.

Information Technology Solutions (ITS) is AARP's technology leader in positive social change and member value, enabling a more effective workforce and globally connecting employees, members, volunteers, partners and advocates to maximize engagement.

Summary

The Technical Architect is a core technical resource on a capability team responsible for the architecture design, development, maintenance, administration, and continuous improvement of solutions for Reporting and Insights. This position is accountable for the technical components of the capability strategy and lifecycle and will be expected to deliver incremental business value in an agile environment. The Engineer II - Reporting and Insights must be a multi-faceted technologist able to build business-value based objectives and perform “hands on” development and configuration within the Reporting and Insights ecosystem.

Other core roles on the team will include the Capability Manager and Delivery Lead.

Responsibilities

Technical Responsibilities

Design and architecture

• Ensure sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the capability lifecycle.
• Lead the implementation of information security requirements in order to meet users’ defined outcomes within one or more customer/employee journeys.
• Lead design and development of proof-of-concepts or minimum viable products as well as architecture design and technology evaluation artifacts.
• Drive reuse of common services defined by AARP’s enterprise architecture standards.
• Provides oversight and governance of AARP technology standards and frameworks for assigned systems and capabilities.
• Participates in development of Enterprise Engineering and Architecture Standards and Practices as required
  

Product Roadmap

• Establish the technical framework for the capability strategy and lifecycle.
• Work with the capability manager to define business-value based objectives and user stories for upcoming sprints
• Develop innovative solutions, taking into consideration performance, scalability, and availability with realistic implementation schedules.
  

Consulting

• Guide business and/or capability managers with investment and budget decisions based on the portfolio of tools needed to accomplish a desired outcome.
• Investigate new technologies and make recommendations to capability managers regarding potential usage.
• Collaborate with the capability manager during complex discussions with business stakeholders, vendors, or technology, particularly when determining the technical requirements/capabilities needed to meet business goals.
  

Continuous Improvement/Operations

• Provide critical input to other capability and platform teams as needed to ensure alignment with broader ITS strategic objectives.
• Drive the continuous improvements of implementation methodology and service offerings based on customer/employee experiences.
• Work to streamline processes, with the goal of speeding delivery to the customer, while balancing risk management objectives.
• Work with developers, administrators and support staff to analyze incident trends & underlying system problems to identify incremental improvement opportunities that support/drive key business value drivers.
• Follows ITS Disaster Recovery (DR) policy and standards.
  

Technical Leadership / Active Practitioner

• Participate in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions.
• Serve as the technical liaison and subject matter expert in business interactions.
• Provide ‘level 2 or 3’ support and problem management guidance for the capability team.
  

Domain Responsibilities

• Responsible for the availability and performance of the Tableau and MicroStrategy systems.
• Ensures appropriate system monitoring and synthetic transactions are operationalized.
• Performs Tableau system upgrades and patches according to AARP and industry best practices.
• Administers Tableau and MicroStrategy and sets permissions (e.g., Report Designer, etc.) for Tableau users.
• Serves as the technical consultant for the team on matters related to system capabilities, integrations, ad-hoc data pipelines, automation opportunities, etc.
• Acts as the technical liaison with other platform and capability teams.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the universe of existing data models.
• Troubleshoots production issues with Tableau, MicroStrategy, or data connections/availability,
• Leads incident and problem management resolution for the team

Requirements

Desired Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field
  

Work Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience and database technology expertise
• Experience in enterprise architecture practices, frameworks and methodologies
• A demonstrated ability to work within a team and build consensus towards a technical direction
• Strong technical expertise in executing proofs of concept and experimentation with development teams
• Technology delivery experience through concept, development, validation, deployment, and support
• Product evaluation through RFI/RFP including working with vendors and internal stakeholder groups
• An understanding of external cloud hosting providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
• Solution Architecture experience with projects using Agile and Iterative approach
• Experience with visualization and analysis tools, such as Tableau and Excel

Benefits Offered

AARP offers competitive benefits with a 401K, 100% company funded pension plan, health, dental, vision and life insurance, STD/LTD, paid vacation and sick, and other benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity

AARP is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. AARP does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, color, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.