Architect

• Develop architectural artifacts, models, patterns, and transition activities
• Collaborates with a team of architects to develop architectures in support of strategic initiatives
• Analyzes Business and IT environments to detect deficiencies and recommend solutions
• Recommends, reviews, documents, maintains and publishes functional technology standards
• Serves as an expert advisor to peers and leadership on technologies based on cost and value
• Develops relationships with business stakeholders and IT management
• Defines roadmaps and transition architectures
• Utilizes exceptional communication skills with all levels of employees and management
• Supports architecture governance and ensures alignment to business priorities

IT Architect

• Perform site visits for the architecture and engineering team as necessary
• Survey an average of 4 typical sites or 8 BAP sites weekly
• Use company equipment to scan and provide accurate measurements of the lease space
• Note ADA violations in detail for architectural and engineering purposes
• Photo document site interior and exterior
• Responsible for turning in monthly expense report on time and keeping track of site expenses
• Other duties as assigned

Architectural Site Surveyor

• Design, architect, and develop maintenance guidelines for IBM Power Systems environments, following industry and vendor best practices.
• Develop, deploy, and provide for administration around IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) environments, ensuring scalability, availability, and performance.
• Architect IBM AIX and IBM i deployments, including supporting system builds, upgrades, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Design and support integration with POWER hardware, Fibre Channel networking, and enterprise storage (FlashSystem, Pure Storage) systems to ensure reliable and high-throughput connectivity. Ensure secure and performant backup procedures utilizing BRMS & FSFC on VTL-backed infrastructure.
• Architect PowerVM, VIOS, and PowerVC tooling to manage virtualized IBM Power environments efficiently. Utilizing HMC, vHMC, and PowerCMC as integral management components is a must.
• Serve as top escalation contact for implemented architectures, recognizing that all Operations personnel are ultimately responsible for ensuring a great client experience.
• Ensure IBM environments are designed for security, resilience, and rapid recovery in the event of cyber incidents or system outages. Experience configuring and utilizing PowerHA, DB2 Mirror, and LPM preferred.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, system documentation, and operational standards to support governance, audits, and knowledge sharing. Ensure automation is in place supporting repeatable, consistent deployments.
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, automation, storage, security, and operations teams to ensure consistent, secure, and supportable solutions.
• Assist the Sales team as an IBM Power subject-matter expert during customer engagements and solution design discussions when needed.

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