Maximo COE​/Solutions Architect

Job Information

Locations: Birmingham, AL. or Atlanta, GA

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Travel Frequency: Up to 15% of the time

This position follows a hybrid work schedule and requires working on-site three (3) days per week and remotely two (2) days per week.

An Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the Maximo Center of Excellence (COE) provides technical leadership and strategic direction for enterprise platform technologies supporting IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), Open Shift, Oracle, and related services.

This role is responsible for defining platform architecture, technology standards, modernization roadmaps, environment strategy, resiliency patterns, and operational design principles that ensure scalable, secure, supportable, and resilient enterprise services.

Working closely with the Platform Support Supervisor, fellow architects, development teams, infrastructure organizations, cybersecurity teams, and strategic vendors, the architect drives long-term platform evolution while enabling operational excellence through automation, observability, documentation, and modern infrastructure practices.

• Partner with one peer Infrastructure Solution Architect and a team of Infrastructure Analysts

• AI & Knowledge Engineering:
  Evaluate emerging AI-enabled capabilities and identify opportunities to automate platform administration, diagnostics, and operational processes.

• Platform Architecture, Strategy, and Governance:
  Establish enterprise architecture standards and design patterns, develop technical roadmaps, define environment strategies, and lead architectural reviews as the Maximo COE moves from Maximo 7.6 to a containerized Open Shift platform under IBM MAS 9.x.

• Platform Lifecycle Management:
  Lead infrastructure planning and execution for platform upgrades, version management, and vendor compatibility. Plan and execute Disaster Recovery exercises to ensure strategies support business continuity requirements.

• Operational Excellence:
  Provide senior-level technical leadership for major production support issues, facilitate platform outage coordination, and drive proactive monitoring and service reliability improvements.

• Vendor & Internal Consultation:
  Build strong partnerships across multiple technical disciplines to serve as a senior technical counterpart to vendors, internal support organizations, and project managers.

• Enterprise Systems:
  Maximo (v7.6, MAS9), EZMaxMobile, Cim Visual Planner, TRM Rules Manager, MAXLS

• Power Delivery Systems:
  Maximo, EZMax Mobile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in supporting enterprise application platforms,infrastructure architecture, platform architecture, or senior technical leadership roles

• Minimum of 6 years of supporting highly available applications in a 24/7 production setting, including application and system monitoring and troubleshooting

• Experience with IBM Maximo (Maximo 7.x and MAS 9.x)

• Experience with Red Hat Open Shift and containerized application platforms

• Experience with Oracle databases and Exadata environments

• Experience with Linux and Windows enterprise server platforms

• Experience with data center migrations, cloud transitions, and infrastructure modernization programs

• Experience supporting cybersecurity remediation and audit activities

• Familiarity with Jira, Remedy, Change Management, and Agile ways of working

• IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) and/or Red Hat Open Shift professional certifications

• Third party MAS add-ons: EZMaxMobile (Naviam), CiM Visual Planner, TRM Rules Manager, MaxLS

• Exposure to AI-enabled technologies

• Experience incorporating AI into day-to-day activities

• IBM Maximo v7.x and MAS 9.x

• Red Hat Open Shift

• Dev Spaces

• Automation Technologies

• Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture

• Platform Lifecycle Management

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation

• Dev Ops Practices

• Capacity Planning

• Production Support Operations

• Incident & Change Management

• Unix shell scripting

• Windows Power Shell or batch scripting

• PL/SQL

• Kafka

• Oracle / Exadata

• Windows Server Administration

• Observability and Monitoring Platforms

• Technical Documentation

• Apache Ant/Maven build tools

• Java programming

• Splunk

• Prometheus/Grafana

• Web Sphere

• Oracle Enterprise Edition DBMS

• Linux Administration

• Ownership and Accountability
  - Embraces challenges with a…