IT Infrastructure Architect

IT Infrastructure Architect - 4 Month Contract

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT-related fields.

Experience:

• 8+ years in a corporate IT environment, in senior leadership roles.
• 8+ years' experience in IT technology architecture.
• Experience in a related technical field (application development, deployment/implementation, and infrastructure).

Tools:

• [Specific tools not listedthis section is left open for inclusion of relevant tools].

Certificates:

• TOGAF or equivalent Architecture qualification (preferred but not required).
• MDP / MBA or equivalent management qualification (preferred but not required).

Work Accountabilities:

• Participate in the global process to manage new technology ideas and demands, providing research, analysis, design review, and recommendations to leadership.
• Provide design support to projects and business groups to ensure efficient and safe technology architectures are delivered.
• Proactively manage global leader stakeholders in a matrixed organization, developing a trusted advisor and teaming approach.
• Collaborate with the team to identify, select, and implement appropriate solutions.
• Monitor and research emerging innovations to determine functionality that may provide business value to the Company.

Define and Maintain Reference Architecture:

• Define/maintain the architecture repository.
• Select reference viewpoints.
• Select a modeling approach.

Select Opportunities and Solutions:

• Identify possible enterprise drivers.
• Consider EA maturity.
• Review and assess gap analysis.
• Evaluate potential solutions.
• Assess Enterprise dependencies.
• Assess Request for EA Work.
• Identify potential enterprise architecture solutions.
• Identify potential domain architecture solutions.
• Formulate high-level implementation and migration strategy.
• Identify EA programmes and projects.
• Validate and prioritize the enterprise architecture implementation and migration plan.
• Confirm transition enterprise architecture increments and phases.
• Obtain approval of architecture roadmap.
• Validate and prioritize the domain architecture implementation and migration plan.
• Confirm transition domain architecture increments and phases.