Tech Stack
AWSCloudCyber SecurityITSMJavaJavaScriptNoSQLPythonSQL
About the role
- Oversees the Solutions Architecture team and leads team members to provide architecture direction, insight, and recommendations
- Works with the CIO, IT, and department leaders to design the required architecture to drive business outcomes
- Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and technical debt and recommends improvement solutions
- Responsible for the design, layout, floor plan, power management, capacity management, and cable management for the Firm's data centers and all the remote office MDF and IDF rooms
- Maintain data center system documentation, including rack elevations
- Assists with the development and administration of business continuity or disaster recovery plans
- Helps to define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value
- Construct and maintain deliverables showing Holland & Knight's current and future-state architecture
- Facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations
- Develops visualizations to help Firm leadership understand the future state architecture and how it achieves Holland & Knight's goals and objectives
- Communicates the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services to key stakeholders
- Works closely with IT peers and product owners to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience
- Collaborates with department leaders to develop strategies for innovation and process optimization
- Coaches and mentors product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related study
- 5+ years of experience of solution architecture design covering IT products, services, and capabilities
- Relevant industry certifications (AWS, CISSP, Professional Cloud Solutions Architect, Open CA, ITIL)
- Knowledge in application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), mobile development, middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies, and active directory and protocols
- Knowledge in data strategies, data lake house, generative AI, and enterprise search
- Knowledge of network and security architecture
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments
- Experience in designing and constructing diagrams for server rooms and data center buildouts, including power and redundancy
- Knowledge of business process management, workflow, and integration methods and tools
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes
- Ability to assess the value and risk of existing, new, and emerging technologies against current technology solutions
- Understanding of portfolio management, agile principles, and development methodologies to support agile teams
- Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Comprehensive knowledge of organizational change management
- Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams
- Physical Requirements: Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time