IT Architect

UL Solutions External Career Site; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Underwriters Laboratories in Makati is seeking an IT Enterprise Architect to lead architecture strategy, define scalable designs, and collaborate with staff and clients worldwide.

The role involves developing three-year roadmaps, evaluating emerging technologies, and coordinating with external service providers to ensure secure, reliable IT infrastructure aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Recommends innovative approaches to leverage new and existing hardware, software, and other technologies as necessary.
• Identifies, researches, and designs supporting infrastructure that provides services to ULs staff and clients worldwide.
• Develops business-focused requirements for the technical architecture; evaluates alternatives and recommends solutions that fit enterprise architecture.
• Determines optimal mix of key service levels in technical designs.
• Defines key aspects of architecture and design (scalability, availability, manageability, security, performance).
• Evaluates new technologies and determines how they could be used or applied in the delivery of IT Services.
• Communicates cost effectiveness of migration or deployment.
• Ensures a consistent and standardized environment for computing resources that will ensure cost effective application delivery for the enterprise.
• Evaluates service level agreements for business and quality of service (QoS) elements when designing solutions (security, performance, reliability, availability, manageability, etc.).
• Advises Business/IT management on IT enterprise architecture issues.
• Participates in the IT Standards, IT Performance, and Capacity Management processes.
• Maintains and applies current knowledge of information technology.
• Researches new and emerging technologies through industry journals, conferences, and various information sources such as Gartner, Meta, etc., to help determine if and how they can be used to add value to the business.
• Leads projects with UL IT managers to develop and maintain three-year technology roadmaps in all technology areas and with UL Application and Information Management.
• Ensures the technology infrastructure and direction meets the current and forecasted needs of the application portfolio.
• Engages all external service providers in the planning and provision of system resource requirements.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
• Performs other duties as directed.

Job description

• Recommends innovative approaches to leverage new and existing hardware, software, and other technologies as necessary.
• Identifies, researches, and designs supporting infrastructure that provides services to ULs staff and clients worldwide.
• Develops business-focused requirements for the technical architecture, evaluates alternative technologies, and recommends appropriate solutions that fit current enterprise architecture.
• Determines optimal mix of key service levels in technical designs.
• Defines key aspects of architecture and design (e.g.
• scalability, availability, manageability, security, performance).
• Evaluates new technologies and determines how they could be used or applied in the delivery of IT Services.
• Communicates cost effectiveness of migration or deployment.
• Ensures a consistent and standardized environment for computing resources that will ensure cost effective application delivery for the enterprise.
• Evaluates service level agreements for business and quality of service (QoS) elements when designing solutions (i.e.
• security, performance, reliability, availability, manageability, etc.).
• Advises Business/IT management on IT enterprise architecture issues.
• Participates in the IT Standards, IT Performance, and Capacity Management processes.
• Maintains and applies current knowledge of information technology.
• Researches new and emerging technologies through industry journals, conferences, and various information sources such as Gartner, Meta, etc.
• to help determine if and how they can be used to add value to the business.
• Leads projects with UL IT managers to develop and maintain three-year technology roadmaps in all technology areas and with UL Application and Information Management.
• Ensures the technology infrastructure and direction meets the current and forecasted needs of the application portfolio.
• Engages all external service providers in the planning and provision of system resource requirements.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
• Performs other duties as directed.