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JOB: Infrastructure ArchitectLocation: Purchase, NY; NYC; Florham Park, NJ; Conshohocken, PA; Charlotte, NCSummaryThe Infrastructure Architect is responsible for establishing and maintaining the strategic direction as it relates to datacenter infrastructure and leads the design of the organization s technology architecture and implementation of hardware and software infrastructure.Responsibilities
- Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks
- Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices
- Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
- Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed
- Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
- Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs
- Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies, procedures, and license agreements
- Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture
- Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements
- Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an architect
- Minimum 3 years of recent experience in financial services industry
- Experience in IT Consulting is preferred
- Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions
- Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN Storage
- Excellent written and oral communications
- Must be proficient in English
- Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives
- Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions
- Experience in leading projects
- Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning
- Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture
- High degree of curiosity about new technologies
- Negotiation and persuasion skills
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