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Enterprise Architect

WASHINGTON-20005, DC, US
01/17/2017

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Required Skills

WebSphere

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

8 to 10 Year(s)

Job Description

Enterprise Architect II

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Oversees enterprise projects within the architectural domain.

Works with business units to translate business strategy into both firm requirements and conceptual architecture.

Oversees other IT staff in technology assessment.

Develops architecture direction for new initiatives and provides guidance to project teams.

Maintains in-depth up-to-date knowledge of standards, guidelines, industry trends, etc., for one or more architectural/infrastructure specialties.

Shares knowledge of specialty areas/best practices across the enterprise.

Develops and executes a communication plan for new standards, stated directions, guidelines, etc., as required.

Defines the system, technical, and application architectures, and in some instances the business systems architecture for major areas of development, recommends course of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness.

Stays up-to-date on business initiatives and objectives, particularly as these relate to infrastructure architecture issues.

Establishes technical rationale and business case for infrastructure changes.

Proactively identifies and defines technical standards and procedures, as well as proactively defines direction for future infrastructure projects. Provides input into the enterprise-wide infrastructure target state for a specific infrastructure architecture.

Collaborates with Enterprise Architects in other architectural areas to ensure comprehensive/cohesive working solutions are developed across architectures.

Maintain knowledge of and apply industry best practices for architecture, leads cross-functional component architecture teams, and develops future architecture and technology migration plans. Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related IT field or equivalent work experience.

Has 8-10 years of experience in enterprise projects within the architectural domain.

Experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement involving broad-based information systems, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change; business systems analysis experience.

Significant experience, in architectural management of multiple core component areas, migration planning and project management of infrastructure projects.

Demonstrated experience in translating business strategies, across several business units, into effective solutions.

Abilities/Skills:

The incumbent would interface across several channels, acting as a visionary, to assist, proactively in developing project direction.

Ability to participate in decision making and anticipate organizational needs.

Capable of presenting well designed, cost effect solutions to address business and organizational needs.

Can manage or participate in large scale multi-disciplined projects.

Ability to design and implement business architecture, processes and strategies.

Strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management.

Excellent analytical, planning, and communication skills.

Acts as subject matter expert and mentors less experienced architects.

Visionary in anticipating future IT direction and able to communicate that vision to IT and business partners.

Preferred:

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

Detailed knowledge and understanding of multiple hardware platforms and systems software stacks such as, but not limited to:

IBM Mainframe – CICS, Cobol, DB2, WebSphere MQSeries

Mid-Range – AIX, IBM pSeries, Java, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQSeries, DB2
LUW, Pega, LDAP, IBM HTTP Server (Powered by Apache), SSL, IBM ISIM, ISAM, TFIM
Other – Linux on IBM pSeries, WinTel

Hypervisors – PowerVM, VMWare

Networks – Internet, CISCO, F5 load balancers, DNS, Palo Alto firewalls

Data – Hadoop, MicroStrategy, Ab Initio

Security – familiarity with User-based authentication, network security, threat detection and prevention, API service protection, etc.

Strong working knowledge of primary network topologies and technologies – Ethernet, switches, routers, firewalls, WAN, TCP/IP, etc.

Experience in deciding on and justifying infrastructure hardware platforms when multiple supported options exist.

Exposure to and experience with open source software options and Dev/Ops tooling a strong plus.

This Infrastructure Architect will be the primary technical liaison between the in-house Business and IT staff and the services provider vendor technical support staffs (Network, Unix, Mainframe, Security).

Third Party Applications Not Accepted