Infrastructure & Solutions Architect

The primary role of the Infrastructure & Solutions Architect is to be responsible for the strategic design and architecture planning for our global C&DR technical infrastructure. The core of this responsibility will be to ensure the adoption of contemporary and forward-leaning technical design patterns across the business line, fostering efficient and impactful implementations that build shared value and economies of scale across our various go-to-market strategies. A key interface of this role will be to the Kroll’s IFS Technology group as the strategic infrastructure SME for C&DR.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Identify technology to be used in the proposed solution. Working with the application developers and third parties as appropriate, they will be responsible for ensuring that a technical design meets the resiliency and scalability the market demands.
• Support the development of the Technology Strategy and Roadmap for IT Infrastructure.
• Ensure that all technology selected for the programme conforms to the organization’s technical long-term strategy, or that an appropriate level of agreement has been obtained where it does not.
• Understand and take responsibility for the detailed design of the technology layer of the agreed solution. Architects own the architecture design and documentation of each solution.  They pull in appropriate skills & resources when needed to develop an overall understanding of the technical architecture.
• To advise on capacity planning of the existing IT infrastructure, taking regular feedback from support team for existing issues and advise on technical architecture to overcome issues.
• Become a central point of understanding of the complete end-to-end technical architecture for the business area concerned.
• Work on research and development/implementation projects to establish new technical offerings in advance of development project needs.
• Lead Architecture and design of IT Infrastructure solutions based on requirements from the business making use of existing IT capabilities and services in the company.
• Work on creating standard Reference Architecture for each technology domain.
• Provide value add in optimizing Technology for Business to reduce Cost of IT.
• Alignment of Business processes with Technology wherever needed for deriving better Business results.

Essential Traits:

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Education Qualification - Should be a minimum BS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• Total Experience –10+ years. Relevant Experience – 5+ years
• Strong verbal/written communication skills 
• Extensive hands-on technical skills within a cloud native environment (AWS / Azure) designing and implementing market facing platforms.
• Experience implementing solutions through automation and the DevOps approach. 
  • Skills in infrastructure automation (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager) and building platform solutions leveraging the DevOps model. 
• Experience of working within a Service environment and technical teams of IT experts with an understanding of the ITIL framework
• Experience working on IT Strategy & IT Consulting engagements is a plus
• Should be experienced in operational services, compliance, capacity analysis and vendor management 
• Experience of being able to highlight issues and solutions within the scope of existing platforms as well as while designing new solutions.
• Experience of managing outsourced or offshore supplier support groups

Technical / professional qualifications:

• A broad understanding of enterprise-class technologies.
• Ability to interface with Applications Team to understand the application landscape and their interface to different systems in the IT landscape
• Should have thorough Hands-On/Consulting/Planning experience (5+) in the following Technology Areas: 
  • Platform design
  • Cloud Technologies (AWS & Azure)
  • Automation technologies (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager)
• Holistic view of IT Infrastructure
• The candidate should have expert knowledge in one or two Domains and knowledge and Awareness in other areas as mentioned below:

Level: Expert

Domain:

• System Solution Architecture (Three-Tier, HA, Scalability & SOA)
• Platform Automation (Infrastructure as Code, DevOps)
• Design of Cloud Platform solutions
• High Availability / Disaster Recovery
• Security

Knowledge: Industry trends, best practices

Awareness: Data Migration, Consolidation, Optimization

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