Systems Architect

ROLE OVERVIEW:

- The Solution Architect is responsible for providing architectural guidance and oversight to ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, available, and operationally sound.
- This person will be heavily involved in the design and creation of shared client infrastructure, client-specific re-hosting solutions and Mergers & Acquisitions.
- The Solution Architect will work closely with a diverse set of partners, including various infrastructure groups, product/development groups, and IS/Business leadership, to evaluate a variety of hosting alternatives to meet business requirements.
- The Solution Architect will be involved throughout the entire implementation life cycle, up to and through production deployment.
- Throughout the process, this person is expected to share their broad knowledge of diverse technologies, facilitate/participate in project meetings, and document architectural standards for both internal and external audiences.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Facilitating and validating Customer requirements
- Architect solutions for massively scalable and resilient systems
- Design software-defined networks and secure data access
- Work with client implementation teams to finalize client technology footprints
- Create and maintain architectural designs and documentation
- Provide leadership to evolve company's long- term strategic technology direction and education regarding client architectures
- Evaluate designs and architectures, and document results/risks based on required technical parameters
- Work closely with Technology Development teams to ensure application architectures are consistent with desired deployment models
- Keep abreast of a broad range of technologies that may deliver value to business
- Participate in the creation and evaluation of business cases (hardware/software costs) for multiple projects
- Help organize support models for new applications hosted
- Coaching Customer and Partner teams on Cloud best practices

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Preferred Years of Experience: 3+
- Education/Certificate: B.S. Required/M.S. Preferred

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- Network and Operating System Security
- Operating Systems (Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows)
- Hypervisor Technology (VMWare ESXi, OpenStack KVM, Oracle VM, Citrix XenServer )
- Knowledge of cloud technology and distributed computing
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud technologies & IT concepts (VMWare, HyperV, Cisco, Microsoft, EMC, AWS, etc)
- In depth knowledge Azure and/or AWS IaaS Services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, SQL database, BLOB Storage, Active Directory, etc) both from a design standpoint as well as deployment
- Should have previously designed and deployed solutions on Azure and/or AWS
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps Scripting (eg Shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
- Experience in building SharePoint 2013 sites
- Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
- BI & Big Data - Hadoop/Cloudera, MapReduce, Hive, Pig
- Client Server and Multi-tier Architectures
- Application Architectures, including .NET or J2EE
- Communications and Networking Architectures
- Messaging Architectures
- Experience with replication and data protection architecture and solutions
- Experience with SAN & NAS technologies

COMPETENCIES:

- Proven writing and communication skills
- Proven consulting skills
- Proven project skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to manage project timelines and outcomes for projects with considerable implementation risk
- Strong technical aptitude
- Ability to multitask and prioritize activities
- Strong interpersonal skills