Position Summary 
 
The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect (Platform/Observability) is a key role within the IT organization. They own and govern the use of architecture design patterns, data tools and principles that align to the overarching IT Strategy and optimally serve their respective domain. They consult and collaborate cross-organizationally to support delivery of end-to-end capabilities. They own, report, and consult on the overall health and corresponding risks of the technical domain. 
 
Essential Responsibilities 

• Architectural Operations: Review and approve projects and work efforts to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards. Track and manage exceptions to standards. Continuously improve operational processes. Assess, report, and make recommendations to eliminate operational risk related to technology or architecture. 

• Technical Expertise: Provide consultation and direction to delivery and operational teams on optimal architecture for respective solutions. Maintain state-of-the-art expertise of enterprise architecture technologies, frameworks, and industry innovations. 

• Leadership: Lead work cross-organizationally through coaching and feedback, and through significant interactions and influence with leaders. Govern work efforts to ensure alignment with reference architecture, IT strategy and policy. Collaborate cross-organizationally to influence alignment on and adoption of enterprise architecture standards. 

• Planning and Strategy: Participate in creation and renewal of an overarching IT strategy. Develop and enforce reference architecture standards that are aligned with IT strategies and principles. Contribute to architecture road maps and provide input to technology roadmaps. Ensure the domain IT Strategy align with Enterprise Architecture framework and standards. 

 
Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position. 

• Ten years of related functional experience 

• Architecture acumen across multiple domains including network, infrastructure, software, hosting models, mobile platforms, and security. 

• Exposure to diverse systems, technologies, and processing environments in a large corporate setting 

• Project solution architecture experience. 

• General knowledge of core aspects of enterprise architecture (Software, Hardware, Network, Integration, Data, hosting models, platform types, etc.) 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills 

• Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise. 

• Demonstrated leadership on technical aspects of large-scale projects. 

• Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets. 

• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Value-Lead Orientation: A proven commitment to driving initiatives and technology solutions that deliver measurable business value, with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and return on investment.   

• 5+ years of experience designing or implementing on-prem, cloud, or hybrid containerization platforms such as TKG, EKS, or other Kubernetes distributions.  

• 10+ years of experience implementing cloud platform infrastructure (such as AWS or Azure) with a focus on operationalization of declarative and self-service cloud resource lifecycle management. 

• Demonstrable experience developing an enterprise observability platform to provide visibility, metrics, alerts and other features to monitor, troubleshoot and improve solution efficiencies with a focus on operationalization. 

• 2+ years proven experience with operationalization of Open Telemetry as an observability framework 

• Experience partnering with infrastructure, network, and application engineers to build architectural designs that are in alignment with the engineering team and vice versa. 

• Strategic Planning & Execution: 5+ years demonstrable experience in developing and executing strategic technology roadmaps, with a focus on resilience and operational excellence / efficiencies.  

• Innovative Technology: Demonstrated experience with emerging technologies such as cloud, containerization, and observability, with a clear understanding of their impact on business strategy. Examples of innovative solutions or programs initiated, championed, or implemented a plus.   

• Operational Technology: 5+ years’ experience with creating observability infrastructure around real-time systems, with a preference of that experience being in OT.  

• Quality Control: Demonstrated experience providing and deploying high quality infrastructure/network solutions. This includes the process, people, tools and architecture to leverage a non-product ecosystem to validate proposed production changes. 

• Operationalization Expertise: Skilled in the operationalization of technology, ensuring that new technologies are seamlessly integrated into existing systems and processes for maximum efficiency and impact. This would also include ensuring Observability and Monitoring are key components of our architecture.