IT Network Architect

IT Network Architect Description
-Background:

HP Inc. brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, and services to serve over 1 billion customers in over 170 countries. Innovative and adaptive, we’ve grown with the industry for decades, from instruments to calculators to computers, printers, and 3D manufacturing. Today, we are building a Future Ready HP, known for more than just the great PCs and printers we sell today, but also for new services and industry-leading innovations, ensuring that every experience we provide is connected, personalized, and optimized for our customers, partners, and employees.

HP’s Digital & Transformation Organization, spanning Digital Strategy and Solutions, Customer Experience, Data and Analytics, Business Technology Solutions, and Digital Value Capture, is at the core of this transition. We are focused on delivering world-class and disruptive technologies, tools, and processes to help transform HP into a more digitally enabled, customer-focused, innovative, and agile company.

From customer to employee experience, from front to back end, we are committed to delivering superior business value and driving operational excellence to transform the customer experience and impact the future of work. We are focusing on putting HP in the best position to drive extraordinary contributions to humanity, furthering the company’s ambitious goals to make the world more sustainable, equitable, and inclusive.

Overview:

The IT Architect will report to the Manager of Network Solutions and Services and provide the expertise and leadership to drive innovation within the network tower of IT for the purpose of meeting the needs of HP business units, IT stakeholders and 3rd party partners. The expertise provided by the successful candidate will create industry-leading IT services that directly support end users and businesses.

The IT Architect role is responsible for managing technical solutions offered to internal HP stakeholders. In this role, you will be focused on driving systems and services through the complete technical lifecycle of network solutions, including requirements gathering, initial investigations, market benchmarking, proof-of-concept execution, financial evaluation and proposal, final solution recommendation, implementation and portions of ongoing support and maintenance. Focused mostly on the network space, this role will require engagement with application teams, business owners and compute/storage leaders.

The IT Architect is a mix of strategic, tactical and operational, with responsibilities in all three areas. The ideal candidate will be effective executing duties relative to long-term strategic initiatives, short-term tactical activities and as-needed support actions. This role is expected to work in lockstep with multiple teams and will need to foster relationships across multiple HP business units for the purposes of understanding business, technical and security related requirements for short-term and long-term development.

Accountabilities:

The ideal applicant should have business and financial insight, technical proficiency, a cooperative spirit, and be a proactive initiator with excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills. They must be capable of working with various groups at once and excel in a rapidly changing, international setting.

Work closely with Engineering, Operations, Employee Experience and Cyber Security organizations to successfully deploy world-class solutions within our IT environment

Shape and deliver next generation network solutions in partnership with leading enterprise technology and managed service vendors

Effectively manage vendors, suppliers and partners in the IT networking space

Create and drive long-term strategic roadmaps for all towers within the IT/network space and drive teams to execute against those roadmaps

Foster relationships with leaders and stakeholders within IT and in the business units for the purposes of understanding gaps and requirements

Drive modernization efforts to reduce technical debt, improve operational stability and enhance employee experiences

Drive financially…