Technology Architect - Infrastructure Solutions

Technology Architect - Infrastructure

Responsibilities :

- Design of information technology infrastructure solutions to meet client's business and (or) technical requirements following standard processes and architecture methodologies.

- Development of architecture for new infrastructure solutions along with market solutions team leveraging new technologies.

- Work with CxO level executives from client side and with on-site lead architects to develop technology plans and account directions on need basis.

- Engage with on-site vendors on a need basis. Degree and scope of engagement with vendors will depend on the project.

- Engage with various lines of services (LoS) and center of excellences (CoE) throughout the architecture design phase and lead the development of the technical solution.

- Handle multiple infrastructure technologies based on project requirements as part of the architecture design.

- Work with internal and external clients located in different time zones namely in Europe, North America and Asia.

- Documentation of architecture design to various levels of detail using the prescribed templates and standards.

- Client presentations.

- Work as an individual contributor.

- Preparation of bill of materials for solutions developed.

Infrastructure Technology Skills :

- Midrange Server Experience in designing infrastructure solutions around IBM-AIX (P Series), Sun-Solaris, HP-UX servers, IBM iSeries servers with the ability to design high availability clusters and virtualization.

- Network Operating Systems Experience in designing solutions around MS Windows Server technologies, Linux and virtualization.

- Storage and Backup Experience in designing enterprise class storage network solutions around technologies like SAN, NAS, iSCSI and products from vendors like EMC, Hitachi and NetApp. Experience in designing backup solutions for heterogeneous server platforms

- Network and Security Experience in designing enterprise class LAN (Campus LAN, Data Center LAN), WAN (VPN, MPLS) and network security (IPS, IDS, Firewalls, DMZ). Awareness of information security.

- Systems Management Experience in designing solutions around enterprise class network and server management solutions such as Computer Associates Unicenter, HP Openview, and IBM Tivoli.

- Databases Experience in designing infrastructure solutions for databases, D/R solutions around databases - Oracle, SQL, MySQL, DB2 etc.

- ECM Optional - Knowledge on Enterprise Content Management technologies - IBM Filenet, EMC Documentum, MS SharePoint etc

- The candidate should be a good practitioner in at least three or more of the above infrastructure categories with 3 or more years of experience and for the rest of the categories the person should be having an overall understanding.

Other Mandatory Skills :

- Good communication skills (Written and Oral).

- Good inter personal skills to manage clients / customers.

- Flexible and adaptable in meeting global delivery requirements.

- The candidate should be aware and have good knowledge of project management and project lifecycle.

- Aptitude and desire to learn

Experience :

Minimum 12-15 years experience in core IT technologies and at least 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure architecture with a good completion track record.

Other Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Certifications :

- Presales experience

- Post sales support experience

- ITIL foundation level certification

- TOGAF certification

- PMP certification

- Engineering Graduate / Diploma Holders