Private Hosting Solution Architect

InfiCare Inc

United States

7 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

2 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Systems Engineering Cloud Computing Information Systems Computer Engineering Systems Analysis IT Management Cloud Services Software Engineering Technical Debt HybridCloud Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology

Job description

Individuals in the Architecture role provide overall direction, guidance, definition and facilitation for the development of an architecture (current and future state) required to meet business strategies and goals. Responsibilities include advocacy and support of the enterprise’s IT strategies, identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context, analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning IT to business.
Architects interface across all business areas, acting as visionaries to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects. They conceive strategies, solutions, build consensus, and sell/execute solutions. They are involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design and implementation. Additional responsibilities may include the establishment of the overall architectural viewpoints and the establishment and oversight of organization standards and policies. Architects identify major system interfaces, business capabilities need, and existing architecture weaknesses and opportunities for systems.
Serving in this role requires an individual to be a self-starter, work independently, and as a team member. They must have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the IT community. Architects are also responsible for educating and guiding others on architectural standards, principles, methodology and trends. They must have significant business knowledge and expertise within one or more areas of information, solution, and/or technical architecture in which they concentrate. Architects are expected to mentor and coach less experienced staff and provide knowledge transfer across the organization.
The Enterprise Architect provides guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices. They must be focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. This role will work on multiple projects as a project leader or internal consultant and be viewed as an expert and provide knowledge and counsel to others. They will also work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of one or more specialized architecture areas such as network, security, applications, data, systems and Internet and business segments.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Provides architectural guidance for the integration and onboarding of application workloads into hosting platforms, including compute, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, and operational requirements.
· Provides architecture and technical leadership for the design and delivery of private and hybrid cloud hosting platforms and supports infrastructure services and integration with public cloud services.
· Promote standardized, automated, and repeatable infrastructure delivery through architecture patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and with approved enterprise automation capabilities and platforms.
· Provides architecture guidance and coordination for the integration of acquired businesses into Enterprise IT, including the assessment, rationalization, and migration of applications and supporting services to enterprise hosting platforms.
· Assists in the analysis, design, and development of roadmap and implementation plans based upon current and future-state architecture.
· Develop standard architecture patterns for integration of services into hosting platforms.
· Aligns architectural requirements with Enterprise IT, infrastructure, security, and cloud strategies.
· Consults with project and product teams to ensure solutions can be integrated into hosting platforms, infrastructure, network, security, identity, storage, backup, and other shared services.
· Identify opportunities to reuse standardized hosting patterns, platforms, services, and automation.
· Supports the development and evolution of private hosting platforms and reusable infrastructure services that can be consumed consistently across business and application workloads.
· Assists in post-implementation continuous improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.
· Ensures the architectural completeness of private hosting solutions, including integration, dependencies, non-functional requirements, benchmarks, resiliency, security, and operational readiness.
· Works closely with more senior architects and potentially project management to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
· Analyzes current architectures to identify technical debt, capability gaps, integration challenges, and opportunities for modernization and standardization.
· Keeps technology and service managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.
· Research and evaluate emerging technologies, such as containers, infrastructure automation, and hosting to support platform strategy and modernization initiatives.
· Identifies approved infrastructure platforms, services, tools, and patterns appropriate for hosting solutions.
· May request exceptions to enterprise toolset.
· Assists in developing business cases.
· Supports change management initiatives.
· Collaborates with project management on reporting project status, issues, risks and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience. Typically has a minimum of four to seven (4-7) years of experience in multiple IT areas with at least two to four (2-4) years of relevant domain experience (data, network, application, systems, etc.). Requires advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, application design, system engineering and integration.
MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:
· Proficient communication skills and experience in mentoring/leading teams
· Ability to translate complicated business requirements into multiple solution options and explain the pros/cons of various approaches
· At least four (4) years of experience
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: *
The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
1. Sedentary physical activity requires reaching, sifting, lifting, finger dexterity, grasping, feeling, repetitive motions, talking and hearing.
1. Visual requirements are for close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.
1. Ability to deal with stressful situations as they arise.