Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Are you looking for stellar opportunities to develop and succeed? If you share a passion for performance, a growth mindset with versatile skills, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity.
Working with one of the top financial clients, this role calls for an Infrastructure Solutions Architect who will provide strategic guidance, ensuring technology teams and business areas understand the architectural options and technology choices that account for total cost of ownership. This candidate will lead, design and/or develop an architecture framework including technology domain architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented.
Responsibilities:
- Develop enterprise or segment technology roadmaps and associated plans. Review project blueprints
- Segment Architect approves or vetoes blueprints based on alignment to enterprise standards. Advises on how best to design overall solutions.
- Oversee/define development specifications, technical requirements, system performance objectives, and identify system modifications required to meet objectives.
- Research/analyze business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within the technology architecture.
- Provide expert consultation and participate as the top technical expert on the highest-risk and most complex initiatives/projects.
- Provide insight and recommendations to develop and implement system architecture within business units and/or IT departments while creating awareness of the total cost of ownership. Influence vendors in product design through subject matter expertise and may develop and/or contribute to negotiations of third-party contracts/agreements where applicable.
- Build consensus and facilitate collaboration and decision making within/across business units/business leaders/IT professionals, vendors and outsourced partners to ensure consistent application of IT strategy and compliance with the architecture framework.
- Contribute to the development of project plans by providing input and managing projects/initiatives by directing assigned resources, communicating project status and providing timely escalation of issues.
- Ensure projects are compliant with technology domain architecture and design/operate processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards.
- Identify, recommend, source, negotiate and implement emerging IT trends, developments and improvements /solutions (buy/build / reuse).
- Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines.
- Apply industry/technical knowledge to provide solutions that increase business results and/or minimize risk. Conduct pre- and post-implementation reviews, ensuring all technical solutions have met business requirements.
- Protect/enhance the security, availability of technology, brand integrity and shareholder value by establishing parameters for continued investment in technology solutions, and by providing technical risk analysis and assessment.
- Provide guidance to technology teams and business partners to understand the architectural options and technology choices that account for total cost of ownership, risk and leverage strategic enterprise assets.
- Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective client solutions.
Desired Skill Set:
- 10 years of experience as a Solutions Designer
- 10 years of experience working as a Solutions architect
- 10 years of exposure to the Network
- 10 years of experience with ServiceNow
- 10 years of expertise in Database management
- CSA Certification
Nice To Have:
- Banking experience
- Consultancy experience
- CTA Designation
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