Senior Architect

Job description / Role

Job description

The senior architect reports to the head of architecture but is also accountable to the delivery head and lead in the business/functional domain (also known as matrix manager) that is being served. The individual is expected to possess deep technical expertise, potential leadership qualities, and be solution oriented.

This specific role will serve the technology platforms domain that is responsible for implementing and maintaining tier zero infrastructure (e.g., networks, compute, data, integration, and workplace digitization). It requires doing both technical solutioning and security while keeping cost optimization in mind.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices
• Design and implement end-to-end solutions for requirements from platform owners
• Develop and design solutions and high-level designs for virtualization technologies, specifically KubeVirt on OpenShift and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provisioning pipelines
• Ensure that all designs are created according to internal ENBD development best practices and architectural patterns used by ENBD that cover resiliency, reliability, and security (RRS)
• Have 5+ years of experience working with cloud native technologies such as containers, service mesh, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and virtualization
• Have 3+ years of work experience in cyber/information security and knowledge of how to integrate security controls into designs, specifically virtualization technologies like KubeVirt
• Possess strong all-round knowledge of infrastructure technologies including but not limited to KubeVirt on OpenShift, general virtualization and container (Kubernetes on OpenShift) technologies, infrastructure provisioning technologies like Terraform and Ansible, Linux-based operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux Virtual Manager (OLVM), and Windows-based technologies such as Windows Server and Active Directory
• Experience with building end-to-end design patterns and solutions by ensuring a balance of performance, resiliency, reliability, and security including but not limited to competencies around capacity management, resilient architectures, and security hardening
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns like microservices and well-architected cloud design principles including but not limited to operational excellence, security, reliability, and cost optimization
• Deep understanding of security concepts like authentication, authorization, encryption, logging/monitoring, infrastructure security, cloud security, and regulations such as PCI-DSS
• Strong knowledge of cryptographic concepts and key management practices, including encryption standards, key lifecycle management, and secret management solutions
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and OCI
• Hands-on experience with identity and access management (IAM) solutions, demonstrating the ability to design and integrate secure identity frameworks across enterprise systems
• Intermediate understanding of networking concepts, including network segmentation, VLANs, routing, and zero-trust network design, to ensure secure and efficient system architecture
• Delivery focused while ensuring the right balance of customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, security, and cost
• High energy, enthusiasm, and passion
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent stakeholder, time management, and expectation management skills
• Autonomous decision-making ability with minimal guidance
• Very high learning potential
• Ability to coach and mentor associate and junior architects
• Deliver complete and self-sufficient solutions and/or design documents within agreed timelines
• Improve efficiency of the architecture design workflow or via automation
• Contribute to building reliable, resilient, and secure platforms
• Deliver education workshops to chapter and tribe members
• Conduct peer review sessions
• New solutions follow or define reusable blueprints/reference architecture
• Invest time in improving personal and professional skills for self via completion of technical and soft skill programs, stretch assignments, and coaching/mentoring
• Upskill self to ensure eventual sufficient depth of architecture concepts including both technical and security architecture