Senior Architect

About the role

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Edits team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Contribute to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined technology domains in support of the product roadmap
• Contribute to the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Supports the Principal Engineer as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and help select preferred technology products

Requirements

• 10+ years industry experience with technology domain experience
• Experience integrating solutions with Cloud provider environments such as MS Azure, AWS, Google, IBM
• Strong understanding of network security architecture and traffic segmentation
• Working knowledge of public cloud networking concepts within GCP, AWS, and Azure environments
• Solid routing, switching, Arista, Cisco Nexus, Firepower/ASA, Fortinet router and DMZ/ISP experience
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP concepts, SDN, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, ISAKMP, PKI, QOS, Multicast, trunking/port-channeling, VRRP, FHRP protocols, enterprise level MPLS, VDC, flavors of VPC, SDN
• Experience with large scale, complex network/DMZ environments and Authentication mechanisms (e.g. Active Directory, Ping federate)
• Experience with scripting languages

Qualifications

• Experience integrating enterprise networks with: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Understanding of cloud connectivity services such as: Cloud Interconnect, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute
• Experience with Site-to-site VPN architectures
• General experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, threat mitigation
• Exposure to EOS and IOS-XR routing
• IPv6 Knowledge/experience to support certification testing of IPv6 capabilities
• Experience with automation and development of automation scripts
• Python experience
• Experience with automation skills/tools such as: Arista CloudVision, Terraform, Ansible, Netconf, YANG

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering