Enterprise Solution Architect

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

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