Systems Engineer / Design Lead

Systems Engineer / Design Lead

Apex Systems, a world-class technology solutions provider, is seeking a Systems Engineer / Design Lead on behalf of one of our largest financial industry clients. Please apply if interested and qualified. We cannot support C2C hiring.

Location : Charlotte, NC / Pennington, NJ / Kennesaw, GA / Plano, TX

Duration : 12 months+

Pay Rate Range : $61-$66 / hr.

Responsibilities

System Engineer, often referred to as a Design Team Lead (DTL) is responsible for the following :

• Work with the client to understand business requirements by reviewing the business requirements document
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Identify appropriate SMEs for technical requirements and design discussions
• Translate technical requirements into a low-level design (LLD) solution using IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks service request (SR) design console
• Partner with the client and several Technology Infrastructure (TI) subject matter experts (SMEs) to produce the design solution that meets the business requirements
• Produce high-level designs (HLDs) using Visio and Adobe along with the LLDs.
• Understanding BAC reference architecture standards as well as several standard and frameworks the bank has to offer to produce a standard and supported solution
• Identify any non-standard product and address with appropriate parties for resolution
• Work closely with the chief engineer throughout the project
• Work with the CE and capacity planner to agree to a hosting target location and solution around sizing of CPU, memory, and storage
• Identify any issues, risks, assumptions, and key decisions that would impact the technical design or LLD
• LLD requirements include documenting CPU, memory, disk requirements (type; NAS, SAN, size, and ownership) backup requirements; schedules, retentions and file systems, application (database, middleware, presentation) requirements, hosting location, capturing active directory organizational units, capturing maintenance and outage windows and identify additional software that must be installed on targeted platforms
• Work closely with the technology project manager to communicate status, updates and escalate to resolve issues as needed
• Work with supply chain management to obtain quotes for hardware where appropriate
• Meet with appropriate SMEs to review and obtain signoff for cost and design solutions
• Update, maintain and post accurate design deliverables to project repository
• Support technology project managers throughout the project lifecycle

Requirements

Ability to create end to end infrastructure solution

Knowledge of database technologies and interfaces

Understanding of cloud and cloud based technologies

Understanding of network infrastructure (HTTP, TCP, DNS, load-balancers)

Ability to create conceptual infrastructure designs using MS Visio

Customer service focused, with good communications skills, a self-starter, self-supervised and has good influencing skills

Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead the design (analyze) phase of a project

Ability to meet negotiated deliverable dates with required output

Able to articulate proposed solutions to LOB representatives as well as technical hosting team resources (SMEs)

Software developer experience

Understanding of PMM / DSES processes and required outputs

Oracle cloud or AWS solution experience