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Our client, a general insurance and reinsurance company, is seeking a Solutions Architect - Infrastructure
Location: Sun Prairie, WI Position Type: Contract Primary Responsibilities -Contribute to the development and maintenance of the IT infrastructure roadmap by performing security assessments and producing and evaluating solution designs for internal projects -Drive conceptual design strategies by reviewing architecture work products to ensure quality, traceability, effectiveness and timeliness of the solution design process -Partner with business stakeholders and project teams to translate business and technical requirements into detailed infrastructure designs which incorporate people, process and technology aspects -Liaise among third-party solution developers and internal key stakeholders by reviewing and providing input on third-party developed infrastructure designs and security assessments -Support the impact analysis of infrastructure designs for changing business requirements -Support information security principles by designing secure solutions and adhering to security standards and guidelines -Generate and/or update DR action plans to meet business recovery objectives as defined by the business continuity process -Support the maintenance of business and application domain architecture by collaborating with enterprise architecture subject matter experts and third-party application architects -Serve as a functional and technical expert for an application, a defined set of applications or a portfolio of related applications -Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility Required Qualifications: -Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience -Experience: 8 years relevant experience Preferred Competencies/Skills: -Developed capacities used to design, set-up, operate and correct malfunctions involving application of machines or technological systems -Demonstrated practice of keeping current with new and emerging tools and technologies relevant to solution design -Effectively present information to influence organizational leaders and key stakeholders -Quickly understand, orient to, and learn new assignments -Critically review, analyze, synthesize, compare and interpret information -Conduct gap analysis of current state and desired future state; identify impact of a given decision -Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment will affect outcomes -Use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems -Collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal -Creativity and alternative, open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things -Identify connections between issues and be able to see the big picture Preferred Knowledge: -Advanced working knowledge of technology to control and safeguard the collection, organization, structure, processing and delivery of data -Advanced understanding of common software architectures, including layered and distributed architecture models -Working knowledge of configuration and adaptation, deployment, design patterns, risk management and scalability -Ability to lead peers and influence strategies from conceptualization through multi-year deployments Experienced in technology lifecycle management. Previous experience working for an IT service provider. -Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture. Advanced degree in technical or business discipline. -Experience leading Centers of Excellence. Experience in multiple EA/APM tools. Industry certifications; ITIL, TOGAF, APICS, Six Sigma, etc. Experienced in technology lifecycle management. Previous experience working for an IT service provider. Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture. Advanced degree in technical or business discipline. -Experience leading Centers of Excellence. Experience in multiple EA/APM tools. Industry certifications; ITIL, TOGAF, APICS, Six Sigma, etc. -Broad knowledge of IT service provider and solution marketplace. -Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills -Experienced in multiple project management methodologies. -Complex, global IT environments -Merger and acquisition solution integrationsVacancy expired!