*Full-time, Permanent *

*Remote in the following states only: *Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. 

Must have flexibility to travel to headquarters periodically (est. 2-3 times a year) for onboarding and meetings.

We are not sponsoring applicants for work visas for this role.

For over 30 years, Midwest Tape has served libraries and their patrons with unparalleled access to the best content available in the media world. Our digital offering, hoopla Digital, combines the media and library expertise of Midwest Tape with the latest in web and mobile technology, delivering an all-in-one experience to the library world. As hoopla continues to grow on a global scale, we are expanding our team.

At Midwest Tape, we know our people are the reason for our success. We value our employees and believe in empowering them to help them thrive. We offer competitive pay and benefits, a healthy work/life balance, and appreciation for a job well done.  

Company:

Midwest Tape is dedicated to delivering applications and engaging content to libraries through innovative interactions. Midwest Tape is unique in that it offers a very diverse set of content to libraries further engaging their enthusiast's needs. hoopla is a leading digital media streaming provider to public libraries. We have tremendous growth opportunities, and our mission is to help libraries serve their communities better with easy-to-use technology and great content. 

hoopla digital is a category-creating service that partners with public libraries across North America to provide online and mobile access to thousands of movies, TV shows, music, eBooks, audiobooks, and comics. There is growth opportunity for this service in the international market as our digital products are becoming a global brand.

*Position Summary: *

The enterprise application architect oversees enterprise application architecture strategy, standards, modeling, design, and governance. The role is responsible for developing application architecture roadmaps by providing guidance and governance for application evolution initiatives through use of standards / frameworks. The enterprise application architect partners cross-functionally to implement robust and scalable application architecture solutions across Midwest Tape's enterprise / custom platforms. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, and communicate enterprise application architecture roadmaps, plans, principles, standards, governance, frameworks, models, and present them to key stakeholders in a consultative manner.

Collaborate closely with lead application developers on web, set-top and mobile platforms to optimize architecture for emerging company application initiatives.

Work closely with product owners, enterprise architects, analysts and solution architects on design, documentation vision, gap analysis, and tactical solutions.

Mentor and guide development teams on best practices for application design, application distributed system scaling techniques, release process integration and use of feature flag management.

Ensure enterprise methodologies are scalable, highly available, secure, and flexible as part of the architecture review board, modeling, and design phases of development. 

Design and collaborate on application business flow, customer experience and testability for applications.

Participate in selection, RFPs and POCs for strategic initiatives that align with feature roadmaps.

Stay current on application architecture best practices and tre