Application Architect

• Document requirements and technical design to meet the requirements.
• Propose one or more design options as appropriate to each situation, including a level- of-effort estimate and target delivery date.
• Document the design option selected by CalPERS.

Deliverable 2: Implementation, Testing and Support

• Develop approved application changes within the existing technical environments, using the approved promotion path and QA/testing methodology.
• Performing internal unit/QA testing and facilitate user acceptance testing.

• Update and enhance system documentation to keep it synchronized with system and environment changes.

Deliverable 3: Knowledge Transfer

• Contractor will provide knowledge transfer of reporting efforts, escalated system issues, and application changes and enhancements.
• Knowledge transfer to take place at CalPERS via regular scheduled meetings and review of documentation.
• Documentation to include best practices and lessons learned during the project.

On an ongoing basis through the end of the contract all work products and deliverables (project status reports, business process, triage incident reports with resolution, meeting minutes, test cases, test outcomes) details have to be discussed with the contract manager to ensure that all of the information is documented and placed in a file share. The contract manager will schedule knowledge transfer sessions at regular intervals to ensure that all of the work production details have been documented and the knowledge has been transferred to the state personnel

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years in data systems design/programming
• 15+ years as Solution Architect
• 15+ years in Governmental Retirement Systems (CalPERS preferred)
• Oracle (11g/19C), PL/SQL, SQL
• 7+ years on actuarial systems
• 15+ years with PL/SQL and ETL for large data
• Power BI
• Snowflake