At-a-Glance:
Are you ready to build your career by joining an international automotive company. If so, our client is hiring a IT Infrastructure Architect/IT Systems Engineer.
Position Type:
Contract
Onsite
Required:
- BS degree (IT field preferred) or the equivalent of 4 years of related experience in Information Technology.
- IT Infrastructure, IT Architecture or relevant IT product related certifications (Preferred).
- 5+ years’ experience in:
- IT architecture and IT infrastructure components
- Enterprise systems analysis, systems design and systems integration
- Driving products from concept and ideation through successful launch
- 3+ years’ experience in:
- Working on a team employing standardized project delivery methods (both waterfall and agile)
- IT application and/ or infrastructure maintenance
- Project management
- Expert Level 5+ years
- Understanding of IT architecture, back-end infrastructure and software
- Understanding of IT systems integration and IT systems analysis
- Advanced 3 to 5 Years:
- Knowledge of modern operating systems
- Understanding of client/server architecture
- Understanding of non-functional requirements
- Knowledge of networking, storage management, recoverability, redundancy and performance tuning concepts, high availability architectures and solutions (clusters)
- Relational database analysis, design, and performance tuning ability
- Skill in project management
- Communication and organizational skills to manage vendors, interfaces, and processes
- Intermediate Leve 1 to 3 years:
- Knowledge in ITIL, operations processes and IT platforms
- Understanding of IT security and risk assessment
- Object-oriented architecture and design skills
- Understanding of NAS solutions
- Understanding of Web technologies (Apache, J2EE)
- Understanding of Authentication systems (Windows AD, LDAP, SSO Solutions)
- Understanding of ITIL and IT-Service-Management
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a technical, system integration and IT architecture subject matter expert and works with operations team, IT Architects, Systems Analysts and within the IT infrastructure technical team to design and build IT systems and platforms that exceed functional expectations consistent with the values of a premium global brand.
- Runs complex technical projects and ensures long-term requirements of systems management and planning.
- Owns the ultimate responsibility for the technical functionality of IT systems and platforms including servers, client applications, tests, key performance indicators and overall technical quality.
- Leads the planning, implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructure solutions and platforms that perform to defined functional and operational expectations.
- Delivers high-quality IT architectural systems and infrastructure designs with an eye for building the designed systems accounting for existing technical debt, any development bottlenecks and architecture initiatives to drive service delivery, optimize cost and support established business goals.
- Establishes and maintains technical security architecture, availability, overall performance and maintenance activities.
- Communicates and accurately documents all architectural decisions, plans, goals and functional requirements.
- Serves as the IT architect and technical lead for service delivery of the scope of the built system by designing, reviewing and overseeing implementation of end-to-end integrated systems, enterprise data and metadata structures, as well as internal systems such as product deployment and licensing.
- Contributes to the definition of the product strategy and BI Target Enterprise Architecture by collaborating with other technical leads, project managers, business relationship managers and business analysts on a project team and across the organization.
- Identifies and proposes new BI ETA standards (products, master solutions and services).
- Ensures high quality by establishing a baseline and monitors technical metrics (i.e. code coverage, performance, scalability) that report the overall health of newly built IT systems.
- Recommends and facilitates quality improvement efforts.
- Stays up to date on future innovations, technical trends and applies this to direct future changes.
- Has knowledge of the solutions available as well as best practices for the business processes.
- Runs complex projects ensuring they are completed on time and within budget with only general direction from management.
- Serves as an IT project manager for small-medium sized projects overseeing resources assigned, conducts status meetings, and effectively communicates the project status to stakeholders as delegated by the Department Manager (Information Technology).
- Develops project plans, administers the release management process and ensures that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
- Participates in Group IT projects.
- Performs other duties as assigned by Group Supervisor.
Get in Touch:
If you think you'd be a good match, submit your resume and reach out to Prakash at (862) 895-5283 to learn more.
