IT Infrastructure Architect
In addition, this position will develop and maintain the high level logical and technical IT architecture and strategy for LogRhythm. Key components of the role include: technical research; developing prototypes; gaining organizational commitments; communication to internal and external stakeholders; guiding IT investments within the company; shaping vendor requirements; conducting pragmatic evaluations of emerging technology; and the ability to translate business / technology vision into practical LogRhythm opportunity / impact assessment.
This person will report directly to the Vice President of Global IT, and will act as an expert in the infrastructure & technology domain and the use of a formal architectural approach (e.g. TOGAF) to define solution concepts, estimate projects, and define architecture blueprints. In this function, the IT Architect will be engaging through the project lifecycle focusing on the request/intake processes through discovery, requirements, and design phases. Additionally, this individual will need to collaborate with other IT organizations to align solutions to enterprise standards and direct and coordinate architecture delivery through the Project Management Office (PMO), Infrastructure and Ops, and other business organizations.
Responsibilities
- Develops Business Architecture processes, standards and best practices to reflect business strategies and objectives
- Consults on complex issues and problems in business scenarios across the global enterprise
- Leads the definition and documentation of architectural standards, processes and operating models based on a strong understanding of our corporate strategies, IT Roadmap, and the needs and wants of our internal business customers
- Works with the Director of IT and VP of Global IT to align IT planning and prioritization with corporate strategy and business planning activities
- Will work to create and lead the Architectural Review Board, as well as authoring formal architectural review and recommendation memos for all items presented before the Architectural Review Board
- Helps promote the use of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows including emerging technologies such as Cloud based solutions where appropriate
- Serves as an advisor on corporate projects to ensure that they do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies
- Conducts a detailed current state assessment and inventory of all business applications and systems for the purposes of developing an IT Architecture Roadmap and Leading Practices Gap Analysis
- Has a proven ability to articulate complex technical issues in a way that non-technical Business leaders may understand and realize the impact on their business units
- Helps ensure processes are in place to achieve project related service level agreements (SLAs)
Qualifications
- 10 years in a large corporate environment, focusing on cross functional complex initiatives
- 5-7 years’ experience in either an Enterprise Architecture, IT Technical Architect, Senior IT Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Expert understanding of IT systems integration and IT systems analysis
- Enterprise Architecture experience or similar position across multiple technical domains
- Cloud Architect experienced in AWS cloud platform or Microsoft Azure with at least 4 years of hands-on experience and 10 years of IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
- Strong experience with storage and virtualization automation
- Experience in defining an infrastructure vision and architecture and an implementation roadmap
- Experience developing Technical Architectural Definition Documents (TADD) and related artifacts through the use of a methodology (TOGAF ADM).
- Solid Cyber Security understanding for Desktop, Server, Network technologies
- Advanced networking skills are required including WAN, Wireless, Firewall, VPN, Proxy and Intrusion Prevention
- Clear understanding and implementation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning
- Strong bias for action and ability to work across multiple business levels and technical areas
- Strong aptitude to learn, ask the hard questions, and drive value based IT innovation
- Ability to facilitate hard discussions to reach consensus decisions (where possible)
- Make sound decisions based on key business drivers (not just technical concerns)
- Recognized as a leader (in the role as an individual contributor), with strong ability to mentor others
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman) and identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets.
- Strong facilitation skills and a clear ability to build strong relationships with business stakeholders at all levels, including senior managers and suppliers
- Working knowledge of common information technology management frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, ITIL, COBIT, and NIST