Solutions Architect - Infrastructure Delivery

Overview

The Infrastructure Delivery Solutions Architect is responsible for designing enterprise infrastructure solutions and capabilities in alignment with the enterprise architecture and security standards: including exploration of new technologies, improving the current IT infrastructure, and integration of new solutions into existing systems. The Solution Architect will be responsible for leading the solution design and supporting the implementation of complex systems, and platforms.  In this role, the Solution Architect will interact with key technology stakeholders, design teams, development, and QA teams on various projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have strong business and technology acumen and can translate business vision and strategy into effective technology change by creating, communicating, and improving the key requirements, principles, and models that describe the enterprise's current, transition, and future states and enable its evolution. The Solutions Architect will collaboratively define how those capabilities will be built and will support the timely delivery of those capabilities.

Core Responsibilities

• Designs enterprise solutions and capabilities that are scalable, adaptable, and in alignment with the architecture strategy, policies, standards and procedures.
• Promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flow. Contributes to a reduction in IT complexity, enforcement of discipline and standardization of IT planning activities. Facilitates the reuse of ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various solutions.
• Leads the design of innovative enterprise solutions, working closely with stakeholders to get high-quality products.
• Documents and communicates architectural requirements for solutions and capabilities
• Provides deep, subject matter expert knowledge for domain technologies.
• Cross team collaboration and relationship building, including creating consensus and buy-in, negotiating and resolving conflicts when necessary with minimal escalation.
• Participates in planning at the department and team levels.
• Provide architectural oversight and direction to multiple scrum teams as applicable.
• Takes responsibility for delivering on commitments to teams: their own team and those with whom they collaborate.
• Actively participates in the Architecture community of practice.
• Designs and oversees implementation of business solutions.
• Maintains in-depth knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures.

Skills Qualifications

Required:

• Knowledge and understanding of virtualization platforms and hybrid cloud environments, network design and protocols, databases and storage, backup and archive, disaster recovery, and infrastructure monitoring
• Expertise with a broad base of digital web technologies, platforms, patterns, frameworks, and methodologies
• Experience with single sign-on systems, identity access management systems, and PII data security best practices
• Expertise with typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage
• Strong understanding of cloud-based computing architectures. Experience within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS and other cloud environments
• Experience with general security technologies, processes, and concepts
• Experience with environments containing multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• In-depth experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex infrastructure solutions, DevOps, and Clustering
• Proven track record of establishing Infrastructure strategy, roadmap, and enterprise-wide capacity planning and containerization (familiarity with Dockers and Kubernetes)
• Successfully performed Cloud enablement, infrastructure cost-benefit analysis, and migration under either AWS, Azure, GCP, or any other Cloud providers
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills
• Ability to clearly communicate complex concepts with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Ability to learn and adjust quickly to a dynamic and changing environment
• Knowledge of ITSM standards and processes

Education

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience. 5 or more years architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
• TOGAF and ITIL 4 Foundation certifications Preferred:
• Certification in any one of the EA frameworks is a plus

Compensation

The wage range for this role takes into account a broad array of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.  The range below applies as long as the work is performed in Connecticut; the Knights of Columbus reserves the right to adjust the wage range if the position is performed in another location.  At the Knights of Columbus, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $104,500 - 172,400.

Authorization to work in the United States is required.

The position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. 

Physical Demands