Lead Architect, Application Platforms

Position Summary

The Lead Architect – Application Platforms is responsible for Architecture and technical leadership in our Enterprise Architecture(EA) team, which works on enterprise-wide initiatives. The Enterprise Architect is responsible for technology architecture roadmaps, design, and technical leadership for the various projects, with an SME ownership for architecture functions in multiple areas of application platform (network, data center, systems, DB, middleware etc.) and help architect application deployment to the on-premise data centers and cloud IaaS / PaaS / SaaS platforms.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Provide Technical architecture and guidance to management as it relates to various enterprise IT systems
• Provide platform architecture, roadmaps and designs for application runtimes that encompasses network, systems, middleware, database and cloud IaaS / PaaS / SaaS services (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
• Create reference architecture artifacts
• Evaluate Application Portfolios and develop modernization portfolios and strategy
• Work closely with application, server and operations teams, effectively communicating and managing customer expectations
• Provide enterprise architecture technical leadership for global initiatives and implementation collaboration with project and operations teams.
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery in the SME areas
• Serves as escalation point for system administration hands on work in the SME areas
• Hands on R & D work for evaluating new technologies
• Serves as escalation point for support and troubleshooting, provides guidance and direction in resolution of escalated application or system problems.
• Create and maintain system documentation for solution design, domain technologies
• Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.
• Strong technical leadership and communications skills including teamwork, facilitation, and coordination to ensure successful creation of roadmaps

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