Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect Meet The Team What You Will Be Doing As the Enterprise Architect, you will collaborate within a talented and experienced team, designing best-in-class digital solutions that deliver value to customers with the opportunity to work on the most cutting-edge technology platforms and tools available. As the Enterprise Architect, you will provide leadership and guidance to the teams, partners, stakeholders, and client throughout the engagement lifecycle. Your role is the lynch pin in the definition, communication and execution of the solution strategy, subsequent proposal, and associated costs that deliver a solution to the client's business problems. You will keep abreast with emerging and trending digital technologies supported by relevant industry knowledge to boost your credence in this role. Your resourcefulness and open mindset are an asset that you can bring to the team. Key Roles and Responsibilities: - Demonstrates ability to build trusted relationships with CxO or Director level client executives - Engage with customers to architect transformative efforts leading to robust and efficient solutions for Hitachi's largest customers - Identify, evaluate, and recommend new and emerging technologies that create strategic and tactical customer advantages - Provide strategy, analytical and architectural support for future designs of AI, ML, and data analytics platforms. - Consult customers on their adoption of technologies such as DevOps, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and Data Pipelines to create more integrated and valuable solutions - Drive efficiencies into compute infrastructure solutions such as VMware and Containerization technologies which support both on-premise and cloud-based solutions - Build business cases for customers solutions demonstrating total cost of ownership reduction as well as potential risk mitigation aspects - Function in a hybrid role leading customer pre-sales engagements followed by ensuring deal nuances are properly related and understood by delivery personnel - Support Sales, Pre-Sales, Delivery and Partners with research related to specific opportunities Qualifications: - Minimum of 10 years of experience as professional IT or in complex engagements at a Solution Design level - Engineering, Information Systems, IT or equivalent bachelor's degree. - Deep knowledge of DevOps & IaC process & deployment strategies within Scrum development cycles featuring Continuous Integration / Delivery (CI/CD) - Experience with data protection solutions providing disaster and operational recovery as well as immutable ransomware protection - History integrating cross platform technologies into larger more robust solutions - Experience with converting consultative findings into financial expectation, prioritization, and cost benefit analysis - Ability to translate customer requirements into "as-a-Service" options for customer agreement - Software Development Lifecycle understanding - Data analysis experience creating KPIs from complex and disparate data sources - Ability to provide in-depth technical details required to assist with Automation code creation Areas of Functional Knowledge (experience in all areas preferred but not required): - Multi-Cloud solutions - Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle Cloud - Automation Solutions - Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet - Virtualization Technologies - VMWare, Xen, VirtualBox, KVM - Kubernetes Platforms - OpenShift, Diamanti, AKS, EKS, GKE - Databases - MSSQL, MYSQL, Oracle, MariaDb, MongoDb, PostgreSQL - Operating Systems - Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, - Server Platforms - Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Quanta - Networking - Cisco, Broadcom, Arista - Load Balancers - F5, A10, HAProxy, Nginx, Azure, AWS, GCP - Storage Solutions - Hitachi, Dell, Pure, HP - Backup/Ransomware Solutions - Commvault, NetBackup, Veem, Rubrik, Hitachi - Code Repositories - GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket - ITSM Platforms - ServiceNow, SolarWinds, ServiceDesk - Productivity Tools - MS Office Our Company Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you. Our Values We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs. We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orient