Lead Architect - Infrastructure Consulting/Transformation

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for a Lead Architect- Infrastructure Consulting / Transformation for one of our MNC client, which provides IT Services and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services company.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage and participate in implementation, migration projects

- Ability to assess the current IT environment and be able to provide appropriate technical solutions to address business challenges related to datacentre optimization

- Ability to define the migration strategy and approach for DC/ platform migration and DC consolidation projects and Cloud migration bids

- Ability to understand and build innovative delivery models

- Participate in meetings to understand customer requirements, Due Diligence and Proposal presentation sessions

- Ability to be part of an infrastructure assessments team

- Work with alliance partners like EMC, VMware, IBM and HP (not limited to ) & create solution for customers.

Competences Required:

- Overall IT experience of 13 + years is essential

- At least 3+ years of technical experience as a lead Architect in the Datacenter transformation domain.

- Candidate must have played a key role in architecting and implementing complex data centre solutions.

- At least 3+ years of experience in consulting and DC consolidation and migration.

- Demonstrated excellence at presenting complex technical topics to both executive and technical personnel

- Should have demonstrated good Orals and Written skills to effectively articulate the Solutions

- Good knowledge of Estimation methods, norms and industry benchmarks

- Good understanding of Infrastructure Consulting (Data centre optimization services)

- Data centre consolidation and migration

- Cloud Assessments

- Server virtualization

- Storage consolidation

- Disaster Recovery

Skills:

- Primary Skills:

- Hardware sizing

- Virtualization

- Cloud

- Platform Migration & Tools (Platespin or native tools)

- Database, Storage and Backup

- Disaster recovery planning

- Secondary Skills :

- ITIL, PMP

Personal Qualities:

- Self driven, flexible and problem solver

- Quick learning curve

- Analytical and having an ability to quickly process information

- Very good interpersonal skills and good team player

- Good communication skills

- Shares own expertise with others; provides guidance and support to others

- Completes own role independently or with minimum supervision/guidance in diverse environments

- Flexible about work content and location and able to work independently with colleagues and partners

- Able to work across geographies, cultures and timelines in complex and conflicting environments