Overview
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Job Details
Type: Contract
Location: Remote (US)
Visa Status: (NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP)
Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and
publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers,
blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks
Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory
services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices
Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows.
Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT
strategies.
Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root
cause analysis as needed
Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application,
network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and
future enterprise infrastructure needs
Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies,
procedures, and license agreements
Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture
Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery
as per business requirements
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an
architect
Minimum 3 years of recent experience in financial services industry
Experience in IT Consulting is preferred
Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions
Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers,
enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft
Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization,
Enterprise SAN Storage
Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
Excellent written and oral communications
Must be proficient in English
Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives
Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years' experience
creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions
Experience in leading projects
Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning
Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture
High degree of curiosity about new technologies
Negotiation and persuasion skills
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
B.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering with at least 5 years of experience in hardware
architecture or system architecture or MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering with at
least 7 years in hardware and network systems architecture