Senior IT Architecture Specialist

SUMMARY:
The Senior IT Architecture Specialist will be responsible for leading and coordinating Infrastructure and business projects from a technology architecture perspective, conceptualizing architectural approaches, developing and validating both on premise and cloud architecture and high level solution design against business requirements, best practices, and guiding and mentoring operational teams on (client) Enterprise Architecture Framework and methodologies. The Senior IT Architecture Specialist develops specifications for new IT cloud computing products and service offerings and is also responsible for leading the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership in support of (client) initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on various cloud platforms The Senior IT Architecture Specialist will be expected to work on multiple high-level business-critical tasks and initiatives concurrently while being accountable for driving success.

POSITION INFO:

Responsibilities:

Architect IT solutions to meet business requirements

Design and participate in the development of strategies for the future direction of the (client) information technology infrastructure and technology solutions.

Create a strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in Azure.

Configure and manage Virtual Networks in Azure, establish (client) core services in the VNET, enable Azure to serve as a part of the (client) network.

Design, Plan, document, and lead infrastructure projects; participate in the IT Department''s solutions development projects as a system specialist and solution provider, with the overall aim of providing well engineered, secure and integrated solutions.

Design and implement data protection options, including HA and BCP protection in Azure

Provide computing, communications and security infrastructure design solutions; participate in infrastructure and application architectural teams; provide design reviews and implement solutions for the Safeguards of the computing environment.

Utilize native Azure services to meet the technology and resiliency requirements.

Conduct technical evaluations and proofs-of-concept to evaluate software and hardware products from external vendors and report on the solutions as a technical expert and advisor.

Initiate and implement architecture and design changes, while ensuring that existing infrastructure services are not negatively impacted.

Design and plan for growth, accommodate for new technologies, and meet business requirements for the IT infrastructure in terms of the enterprise architecture framework.

Ensure the agility, reliability, security and availability of the architected solutions and services, with the aim of providing flexible, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions.

Develop blueprints for a secure and adoptable multi-tenant cloud framework including custom governance, security, identity management and operational controls

Integrating 3rd party hosted solutions as well as on-prem solutions to Azure identities and services.

Engineering of system-related solutions for various projects and operational needs.

Provide guidance to the (client) infrastructure team throughout the implementation phase for a variety of on-premise or cloud projects.

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