Storage Architect

About the role

We are seeking a full-time Systems Architect 1 at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.

Responsibilities

• Develops and designs system architecture
• Develops understanding of performance of system with current limitations or bottlenecks
• Led system performance analysis utilizing trends, system metrics, and current business transactions, traffic, or usage through the system
• Diagnose or make recommendations for improvements
• Understands future business growth needs and determines impacts and risks to the system
• Determines impacts and risks to the system from project or release requirements
• Provides cost effective architecture recommendations to support the system’s growth, maintain system stability and provide a good user performance experience
• Researches and identifies new technologies to improve system performance and availability
• Leads or assists technology and product assessments, performing evaluations as required and making acquisition recommendations
• Creates and maintains architecture related artifacts for existing and new solutions
• Identifies and develops improvements to procedures and processes to satisfy system architecture requirements and streamline operations
• Business-wide leader in project execution and design of new or existing systems and/or applications
• Conducts requirements gathering/design sessions for new functionality and customizations
• Gathers and documents complex requirements for business needs and independently determines complex solution designs across multiple functional/systems/module areas
• Translates, negotiates and communicates architectural and development concepts across development teams
• Develops project documentation including statements of work, detailed project plans, architecture designs, detailed implementation plans, deployment plans, project test plans and operational training materials
• Completes complex troubleshooting and determines appropriate course of action to deliver actionable results
• Demonstrates broad understanding of Garmin’s business model including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales & Marketing
• Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
• Participate in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or another relevant field and 9 years relevant experience
• Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining storage systems for block, file and object storage technologies
• Advanced knowledge of SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe, and storage networking technologies
• Demonstrated experience in successful implementation of technology solutions
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a large team or departmental setting
• Manage multiple storage and infrastructure projects while driving continuous improvement, automation and operational excellence