Solution Architect, Cloud and Infrastructure - 116703

Reporting to the Director of Cloud and Infrastructure, the Solution Architect, will assume a leadership role in ensuring that our Enterprise Cloud and internal infrastructure systems remain leading edge and engineered for growth. The Solution Architect will also play a vital role in directing technical issue resolution.

• Brings complex infrastructure experience involving diverse IT platforms and technologies, supporting thousands of users and hundreds of servers to a multi-tenant, hosting environment.
• In concert with the Chief Technology Officer and other IT specialists, performs analysis and provides recommendations for both internal infrastructure and customer deployments
• Ensures the conformity of project solutions with established standards.
• Works to promote continuous improvement in our IT architecture and processes using best practices.

Responsibilities :

• Analyse internal and external customer requirements and recommend enterprise systems infrastructure according to company and industry standards
• Evaluate software and hardware components
• Propose and review modifications to system architecture, integration rules and the enterprise core documentation set.
• Direct the resolution of technical and cross functional problems to ensure timely and comprehensive support service to both external and internal clients
• Manage strategic deployment projects with a focus on Scope, Time, Cost, Procurement and Quality Management
• Define, and ensure delivery of projects including documentation, operating and support procedures
• Facilitate sharing of best practices for customer service

General Qualification Requirements :

•  Bachelor degree in Information Technology or equivalent (or equivalent experience).
•  Experience in an environment that supports a large number of users and hundreds of servers
•  Strong technical analytical skills and ability to use sound judgement when evaluating solutions.  Respects deadlines and adjusts to priority changes and corporate objectives
•  Deep IT knowledge; technical platforms, programming languages, operating systems, networking, middleware and communications.
•  Skilled at appropriately framing, analyzing and solving complex problems
•  Ability to multi-task and work efficiently in high priority problem resolution situations
•  Ability to develop complex plans in support of technological advancement
• Able to work in a team or autonomously
•  Technical writing capability
• Organized, detail oriented and rigorous work approach
• Ability to promote ideas and innovation to his/her colleagues, supervisor and management
• Solid usage of common computer tools as well as collaborative tools

Technical Qualification Requirements :

• Experience in Data Centre technologies (virtualisation, storage, networking etc)
• Expertise with networking and communications
• Experience with Windows platforms
• Experience with VMware
• Experience with Cisco products
• Experience with IBM storage

Specific Qualification Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years general experience in Information Technology
• Minimum of 5 years in the development of systems combining distributed components with modern technologies (n-tiers platforms, Web applications, information systems, middleware)
• Has held a position of IT Solution Architect Specialist with project management responsibilities