Enterprise Infrastructure Architect - Stuttgart Germany

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect needed for 6-12 months contract with an Open Rate to work in Stuttgart Germany.

Technical skills

• Designing WebSphere Liberty solution for various offerings
• Integrating WebSphere Liberty solutions with identify, monitoring and event management solutions.
• Ability to assess the solution from non-functional aspects.
• Defining migration path from WebSphere-to-WebSphere Liberty
• Ability to handhold migration and build teams in building Liberty environment that meets customer needs.
• Act as a product owner and make sure that product life cycle management is performed on periodic basis.
• Enhance the solution based on the application teams' feedback & requirements.
• Must possess experience as an enterprise architect for a completed large-scale project.
• Must have undertaken the role of Technology Architect in a few projects.
• Must have experience of architectures involving system planning, networking, operating systems, cloud, backup & archival, EMS, RPO/RTO management.
• Must have experience of at least two projects involving transformation & migration.
• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.
• Must have experience in architecting Hybrid Cloud solution and exposure to Software Defined Datacentre
• IBM WebSphere Liberty solution
• TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect
• ESXi, NSX, vSAN, VCF, KVM, Neutron, CEPH, OpenStack, Compute (Blade), SAN (IBM, DellEMC, HPE), NAS (NetApp, ISILON), Object, Backup (DellEMC, Veeam), Physical Hosting, OS (Win, Lin), DB (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MongoDB)

People skills

• Lead for 15-20 team members
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
• Understanding and experience to ensure that systems are documented and kept current.
• Ability to work on design activities and assist with required data points.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse business requirements mapped to technology trends so as to derive high level architecture.
• Should possess extensive detailed working knowledge and acumen in the technology domains.
• Enterprise architecture best practices, including, but not limited to, logical and physical architectures, network communications, operating systems, applications, data base Servers, application Servers, web Servers, server consolidation, server network and storage performance, server and storage virtualization & capacity planning.

Area of responsibilities

• Shall be single point of contact and owner for the Technology and Architecture
• Develop deep understanding of existing architecture and deployment.
• Manage architectural transformation.
• Imbibe key architectural principles proposed by Customer and perform detailed design of Cloud, Virtualization, Network, Security, Tools, Storage, Servers, Backup & Replication architecture.
• Responsible for creating or selecting the most appropriate architecture and technology to enable scalability, flexibility, agility, consolidation & optimization involving latest technology trends.
• Manage architectural changes and ensure timely and accurate documentation of all key changes.
• Business Continuity Planning (DR, RPO, RTO)
• Migration planning including service sequencing, cutover and rollback plans.
• Responsible for successful deployment of new architecture
• Responsible for migration execution till stabilization, sign-off and handover
• Operations Process documentation (Operational Manual)
• Foresee possible technological risks on the transformed DC and workout possible mitigation strategies.