IT Solution Architect Italy

Thales; Roma; In loco; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading aerospace manufacturer in Italy seeks an IT Solution Architect to optimize the technical architecture. Responsibilities include ensuring architectural consistency and advising on solutions for business initiatives. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience in architecture, strong communication skills, and relevant certifications. This position offers opportunity for professional development in a dynamic environment.

Servizi

Career development opportunities

International mobility

Competenze

• Minimum 5 years proven experience as a Senior Architect.
• Excellent communication skills with clients and teams.
• Ability to gather and assimilate information efficiently.

Mansioni

• Guarantee consistency of technical architecture across various domains.
• Advise on technical architectures & solutions for business projects.
• Research current and emerging technologies to enhance services.

Conoscenze

Infrastructure domain

Backup/DRP

Servers & Platforms

Virtualization

BigData Infrastructure

Datacenter Architecture

Formazione

Relevant architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, VMware, Azure)

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

AWS

Cisco

Descrizione del lavoro

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high‑tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Job: IT Solution Architect

Within the Enterprise Architecture department, the IT Solution Architect participates during the design and build phases of projects in order to guarantee the global consistency of the enterprise IT technical architecture.

We are looking for an IT Solution Architect to join our Network & Security squad and implement technical architecture designs that will improve our organization’s network & infrastructure, and ultimately support upcoming business & IT transformations.

Responsibilities

• Guarantee consistency of technical architecture
  • Ensure compliance with the enterprise architecture methodology, design process, principles & rules and relevant IT standards & norms
  • Apply a frugal approach by promoting reuse of architecture components & patterns and favoring cost‑efficient & sustainable designs
  • Advocate technical design choices to ensure coherence across all Thales Alenia Space countries
  • Contribute to the capitalization and sharing of knowledge on the Information System (modeling, documentation, communications, trainings)
  • Propose new additions and updates to the architecture principles & rules repository
  • Participate actively in the architecture governance process, from demand to delivery
• Advise upon technical architectures & solutions
  • Design single‑TAS technical architectures in response to a business project or architecture change requests
  • Analyze and check the technical impacts of proposed solutions and their coherence with existing architecture for all countries (As‑Is & To‑Be analysis)
  • Propose designs that respect contextual constraints: priority, time, resources, organization & data
  • Inform stakeholders about any issues with current technical solutions being designed and implemented
  • Collaborate with IT & Security teams to ensure proposed architecture meets performance, adaptability & interoperability objectives
  • Facilitate architecture design, risk assessment & security validation and document decisions in the decision log
  • Support, provide expertise and perform verifications during implementation and rollout before delivery in production
• Innovation
  • Research current and emerging technologies in agreed technical areas
  • Identify & propose opportunities/use‑cases for sustainable benefits or to resolve recurrent issues with emerging technologies or designs
  • Participate in proof of concepts

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure domain (Storage, Backup, Data management, Virtualization, security constraints)
  • Storage: DAS, NAS, SAN, HCI, SDS
  • Mass Storage Units: Block & File‑Services
  • Data storage structuration: Gold/Bronze services
  • Block Storage SAN: FC, iSCSI, topology design, FC network design, geoclustering, switching architecture, zoning (back‑end reference)
  • Deduplication & long‑distance replication
  • HCI/SDS infrastructures
  • Object Storage: S3/S3+ (ECS, Scality, Ceph)
  • Vendor skills: Dell/EMC/HPE/Brocade/Nutanix/VMware and others
• Backup/DRP (Physical/Virtual/End‑user PC)
  • Backup architecture for physical servers, virtual servers & end‑user laptops
  • Data archiving & long‑term retention over media lifecycles
  • Backup knowledge on physical & virtual tapes & robotic libraries; FC SAN topology for Tape‑Drives
  • DRP via backup infrastructure: impact analysis to meet Thales Corp. DLO/RTO, data geo‑locations, local & global catastrophic event identification
  • Vendor skills: Atempo, Veeam, Avamar and others
• Servers & Platforms: Dell/EMC/HPE, network and SAN interfaces
  • Legacy server architecture & sizing
  • HCI virtualization (Nutanix / VSAN) architecture & sizing
  • Legacy VMware ESXi node sizing
• Virtualization: VMware full stack
  • Legacy VMware vSphere cluster architecture
  • HCI VMware vSAN architecture
  • HCI Nutanix architecture
  • VMware NSX architecture & security features
  • VMware vREALIZE automation suite
• BigData Infrastructure
  • Docker/Kubernetes architecture
  • Network overlays: VLAN, VxLAN, Flannel, Calico, GENEVE
  • Stateless / persistent architectures & storage impact (PV, PVC)
  • Rancher / Ansible / Terraform / Packer / GoVC architecture
  • ElasticSearch / InfluxDB architecture
  • Backup & recovery for metadata and data
• Datacenter Architecture & Servitudes specifications
  • Energy & thermal constraints/specifications
  • Electrical power balancing architecture & rules
  • Equipment location definition to increase service availability
  • Data room architecture documentation

Desired Architecture & Technology Certifications

• TOGAF
• VMware Certified Professional / Advanced Professional
  • Network Virtualization (VCP‑NV)
  • Datacenter (VCP‑DCV)
  • Cloud Management & Automation (VCP‑CMA)
  • Security (VCP‑Security)
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Cisco CCNP Enterprise

Managerial And Behavioral Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to build good relationships with clients, operational managers and colleagues
• Ability to gather and assimilate information
• Problem‑solving aptitude
• Organizational and leadership skills
• Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
• Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
• Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions

Languages

• Italian
• English – Ability to write IT documents and attend/manage meetings in Italian and/or English; architecture studies are in English
• French [Nice to have]

Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Architect (minimum 5 years)

At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With around 8,900 employees in 10 countries and 17 sites in Europe plus a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here, apply now!