IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

The main goal of the Solution Architect is to evangelize, design, and deliver cloud solutions that power Vaimo service offering. In this role, you should lead brainstorming sessions to develop solutions for business needs or problems. It requires working with product and delivery teams to develop scalable solutions and products. Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and continually researching current and emerging technologies to propose changes where needed. As a solution architect, you will be working in the Platform Engineering team to ensure the coherence and consistency of selected tools and frameworks. You guide the teams to define and develop the services and interfaces according to the selected architecture.

Your daily tasks will also include:

• Defining the shape and structure of the infrastructure solutions
• Analyse infrastructure solutions
  • Provide infrastructure analysis services to clients and/or internal stakeholders
  • Analyse and understand user needs and expectations, as well as alternative infrastructure architectures and trends
  • Conduct analyses of technology and associated operational processes, with a view to recommending infrastructure designs and strategies that will improve service, lower costs, and prevent unforeseen operational issues
  • Analysis of current technologies used within Platform Engineering and ways to improve them
• Create architectural standards
• Finding and documenting solutions to business requirements
• Considering how solutions will scale and how it will be operated and maintained
• Managing the risk in third-party dependencies
• Managing the complexity of the solution

As a solution architect, you should have comprehensive development and architecture experience to fulfil these tasks. For defining, implementing, and verifying the best product & service architecture you work collaboratively with business and tech stakeholders, including both – people and also processes aspects. To succeed, you should:

• Be proactive and forthcoming
• Able to negotiate a solution with various groups of people
• Able to understand and explain complex problems to all stakeholders in simple terms
• Be an agile leader (if also a scrum master)

Together with your talented colleagues, you will focus on connecting the needs of businesses with the new possibilities that come with technological progress, inventing and testing things, getting new applications ready for roll-out, and ultimately implement the right technologies to transform their businesses.