Position: Infrastructure Architect Location: Washington DC (Local or Nearby)
Duration: 12+ months Interview mode: F2F Interview Job Description: The IT Infrastructure Architect supports FEPOC’s CCTI business portfolio by providing reliable IT infrastructure support to ensure sustainability and efficiency. This role is responsible for accurately and efficiently architecting and implementing CCTI related products for a cross-business unit multi-product integrated data warehouse solution within the FEPOC environment. *In this role, the candidate:* - Partners with cross-functional teams (network, security etc.) to design infrastructure architecture, manage the infrastructure lifecycle, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery capability of critical systems - Performs in an architecture role for IBM tools and technology given that CCTI data warehouse environment is an IBM-based solution (i.e. IBM Pure Application System) – this includes pro-actively identifying and planning for CCTI HW/SW and environment refresh cycles. Therefore, the CCTI Architect will perform in the role of “expert” on the IBM-based systems and solutions, and will be on point to support the projects team questions on all technical matters, including working with other technical leads and SMEs for other technology tools and platforms (i.e. AB Initio, Cognos, WebSphere, DB2, etc) - Supports collaboration with IBM for overall vendor relationship, and participates as needed in issue resolution with IBM’s escalation support path (i.e. PMRs) - Create and maintain CCTI architecture diagrams - Recommend and lead technology and environment refresh activities - Explores business and functional requirements and makes recommendations to both internal IT team and to business owners for approval - Recommends alternatives for IT infrastructure architecture to support short- and long term planning (including capacity assessments for storage, network, usage patterns, HW/SW licenses, etc) and to ensure business sustainability. - Elaborates functional requirements into technical specifications in order to ensure effective development processes with internal and external partners, and to support project and infrastructure-related implementations - Leads the execution of IT deployment plan in order to ensure deployment efforts are aligned with the agreed solution - Evaluates overall IT infrastructure strategy in order to ensure optimal system performance, availability, and maintainability. - Lead and participate in special “Tiger Team” projects to address performance or operational issues, as required - With support from internal IT technology teams, recommend and implement appropriate firewall, routing, and network security configurations - Assess and provide recommendations for optimizing use of existing tools, and/or to identify recommended procurements to supplement the existing CCTI environment - Identifies areas for improvement within existing CCTI environment, and helps to develop improvement opportunities to be reviewed and discussed with the business owners - Support issue management activities, including evaluation, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and issue resolution with recommendations on process and/or architectural changes as part of the solution. - Investigate and evaluate hot fixes and maintenance patches for proactive implementation *Qualifications:* In order to be successful in this role, we expect that qualified candidates will bring the following skills, experience, and attributes to the job: - More than eight years of experience in IT with IBM tools and technologies. - Knowledge and experience working within architecture frameworks (e.g., IBM data warehouse, IBM Pure Application, Cognos, Ab Initio) - Experience working within Service Integration and Management (SIAM)Experience with software architecture, solution architecture, software project management, SDLC, Java, SOA, UNIX, Linux - Experience working with DB2, Cognos, ETL tools (Ab Initio preferred), IBM Pure Application, Control-M, and Axway transfer protocol) - Working knowledge of IT architecture and IT governance - Experience with enterprise-wide platforms such as IBM, Dell, Cisco, etc. - Excellent communication, facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills - Ability to support day-to-day operational activities as needed Thanks and Regards Saransh 614-664-7645 sara...@technocraftsol.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Citrix and Sap problems" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to citrix-and-sap-problems+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to citrix-and-sap-problems@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/citrix-and-sap-problems. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
