Role: Enterprise Solution Architect
Location: Auburn Hills, MI
Interview: Phone/Skype
Emp Type: Permanent Job
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of an ESA are broken into categories, as listed below.
Responsibilities
Project Roadmap
• Document and update multi-year project roadmaps, in conjunction with ADM and A&I Teams
• Provide high-level alignment of upcoming projects to standard technologies and solutions
• Highlight key and impactful projects on the roadmap and communicate to A&I teams
• Highlight key new technologies from the Roadmap and work with requesting group and Enterprise Architecture to obtain approvals for technologies in a timely manner
• Work/ with A&I Management to identify possible resource and delivery constraints, based on documented Project Roadmap
Drive Collaboration of Standards
• Identify technical and/or process standards and/or issues that prevent or inhibit the use of Service Catalog offerings and/or automation of services (e.g. Cloud)
• Collaborate, across towers, to resolve items identified items
• Support EA and consult with project teams on the selection of IT products and services
Service Catalog
• Work with A&I teams to understand documented standards
• Document the architecture and detailed architecture for standard solutions, consulting with A&I teams, to be included in the Service Catalog
• Communicate the Service Catalog offerings to all members of ICT
Project Initiation
• Consult with project requestors to identify when infrastructure projects should be initiated
• Inform A&I teams about the start of projects, including a high-level summary of the project scope and technology
• Consult with A&I project managers to prioritize projects
Document Requirements
• Lead the identification and documentation of infrastructure requirements by consulting with project leads and requesting teams
• Apply known technical standards to guide solutions towards standard infrastructure offerings
• Evaluate proposed infrastructure technologies and validate the use within the project
Architect Solution
• Consult with A&I teams to identify solutions for projects
• Document the infrastructure architecture for projects
• Present the proposed infrastructure architecture to A&I Teams; validates/modifies the architecture, as required, to obtain approval and support
• Assist Server Architecture team in obtaining project estimates
• Document the detailed configuration of architecture elements
Build Infrastructure
• Review updates regarding the build of infrastructure for projects
• Modify project documentation, if required
• Drive conclusion of requested infrastructure technology changes, if required
• Consult with the requesting team to validate the build of the infrastructure
Operate Infrastructure
• Assist the Server Architecture team in planning server lease refreshes
• Highlight technologies that prevent the ability to perform lease refreshes and attempt to resolve issues
• Consuls with A&I teams to recommend modifications to the system architectures
• Consult with the owning teams to improve operational delivery and costs for application environments
• Update environment architecture documentation for any updates
Knowledge Management
• Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation for applications
• Inform operational teams of updates to the infrastructure architecture documentation
• Assist with and support any SWAT activities to support application and environment availability
Key Competencies
• Understands infrastructure architecture, including servers, SAN, networking, database and middleware
• Understanding of application and database development and methodologies
• Able to coordinate many efforts and produce high-level plans
• Able to facilitate meetings
• Able to perform basic levels of financial and / or time analysis
• Able to document complex ideas for presentations
• Able to identify and apply standards and patterns to produce effective solutions
• Able to formalize standards and applies these standards to create solutions
• Able to conceptualize new ideas to improve performance or reduce costs in ICT
• Critical thinker - thinks outside the box and asks tough questions
• Drives for integration across all areas of ICT
• Creates synergies within ICT