IT Infrastructure Modernization Architect

Senior Architect for the CMRE Enterprise

Location: Fully remote from EU, for CMRE in La Spezia (Italy)

Security Clearance: No SC needed

Reference No: CMRE

Skills, Knowledge, Experience Required

• Proven proficiency in English (minimum C1 level certificate)
• At least 4 years of experience in the required field, demonstrated in the CV
• Previous expertise in similar projects, demonstrated in the CV

Duties/Role

• Design the future state enterprise architecture of CMRE by gathering needs from internal stakeholders and defining requirements for IT infrastructure and services.
• Use a phased approach involving key areas of CMRE business, including:
  • Immersion: understanding existing IT landscape, workforce, processes, CIS, and NATO security requirements.
  • Architecture Design: collaborating with business domains to propose a future IT infrastructure considering industry trends and current operations.
  • Documentation: creating a High Level Architecture with logical and physical views, technologies, services, infrastructure requirements, and a roadmap for implementation.
• Encourage bidders to suggest their own methodologies that cover these phases conceptually.

The Contractor Shall

• Analyze existing IT landscape considering NATO standards and strategic plans.
• Analyze NATO CIS and security requirements.
• Engage with up to six groups representing CMRE business areas.
• Propose new ways of working based on industry best practices.
• Map business requirements.
• Develop a High Level Design (HLD) of the future IT architecture, ensuring compliance with NATO policies and international standards for confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including technology stack, network infrastructure, and capacity estimates.
• Define IT infrastructure and service requirements.
• Provide an implementation roadmap with work packages and dependency mapping for procurement purposes.