Infra Architect

Job Description

Each Infrastructure Architect is part of a diverse and dynamic team who applies seasoned knowledge to deliver designs for complex, multi-tier, and cross platform environments. In this role, the architect is responsible for interpreting non-functional requirements, reaching consensus on the end-to-end solution, and formalizing the infrastructure design. The architect will partner with business leaders, developers, platform engineers, and operational support teams to provide design guidelines and impart knowledge on technical trends. The team provides subject matter expertise on various architecture disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive infrastructure designs that incorporate strategic target state architecture and standards to maximize performance, capacity, and minimize total cost of ownership.
• Translate complex and sometimes ambiguous business requirements into sound technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and be responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
• Work with application owners and SME's to influence and shape the strategic direction and target state infrastructure architecture.
• Apply hardware engineering and software design theories and principles in researching, defining, or recommending product hardware and software interfaces.
• Develop or update comprehensive DR strategies by recommending specific tools strategies, and solutions meet internal or regulatory requirements.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and recommend business directions based on these technologies.
• Educate the business representatives, engineering teams, build, and support teams on standards, processes, and tools.
• Drive client satisfaction by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance of solutions to operations roadmap.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets.
• Support compliance to applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices.

Qualifications:

• Experience providing technical leadership in the design of highly complex systems across on-prem, 3^rd party hosted, and Public Cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with various UNIX and Windows OS, and the underlying infrastructure they can run on.
• Knowledgeable about HP and Dell x86 platforms.
• In-depth understanding of a variety of Storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, ScaleIO, Object Storage.
• In-depth understanding of Backup, Archival, Web, Middleware, Database, Security, Encryption, Network, and Virtualization platforms.
• Experience with performance modeling, capacity analysis, and capacity planning.
• Experience with container platforms and management; Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with web platforms; IBM WAS, WebLogic, Tomcat, and Apache HTTPD variants.
• Experience with infrastructure requirements for Oracle RAC, SQL Server AlwaysON, MongoDB.
• Understanding of data platforms that provide for structured and unstructured data, fault tolerance and high availability.
• Familiar with integration technologies like AbInitio, Kafka, Apache Ignite, IBM MQ and Rabbit MQ, Solace, Tibco.
• Background in technology and infrastructure provisioning preferred.

Critical Competencies:

• Strong and effective communication skills to guide meetings, provide direction, conduct presentations, while interfacing with business sponsors and executive leadership.
• Ability to enforce the architecture solution by influencing decisions through advice, counsel, or facilitating services.
• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new technology quickly
• Demonstrate composed analytical thought to resolve issues in high pressure situations.
• Clear and concise written and oral communication.
• Must be able to analyze the financial aspects of technology.

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of Technical Architect and/or Solutions Engineering and design experience.
• Foundational knowledge of TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, PMI/PMP, SDLC.
• Technical certifications showing a pattern of continuous professional development.