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At Marina Bay Sands, the Solution Architect is responsible for the Architecture and design of technology solutions

Job Responsibilities

• Assists in the implementation of new solutions based on business requirements and IT strategies.

• Develop a 4 + 1 architecture views of the solution.

• Develop the system architecture covering Server, compute, storage.

• Develop the architecture to address the non-functional requirements such as Scalability, Availability, Performance, Flexibility and Security.

• Actively drive and direct solution discussion as a technical delivery member.

• Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the solution and assigning specific task.

• To assess and decide on the direction of solutions based on the impact analysis and experience, especially when there is project delivery risk in the functionality and schedule.

• Drive the solution design discussion to deriving the best solution design during the solution design phase.

• Review of the documentation prepared by the Business Architect, Integration Architect, Infrastructure Architect and Vendors.

• Keep up-to-date on latest security for IT development best practices

• Keep up-to-date with latest technological trends in relation to Infrastructure, especially on the various Cloud based managed services

• Maintaining accurate documents of the work done for reporting and accountability.

• Provide regular project update schedule to the stakeholders

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent experience is preferred

• At least 8 years of IT experience of which, 1-3 years minimum in demonstrating management and technical leadership experience.

• Expert Knowledge on the following technologies: Designing and implementing Data center high availability, VMware, vSAN, HCI, and Enterprise Network/Campus Network.

• Good understanding of network topologies, protocols, and standards, Subject matter experience in multi-vendor products - Cisco, HP, Brocade, routers, wireless, Firewall, IPS/IDS and switches.

• Experience creation of System and network related Bill of Material (BOM) equipment lists and costing/Budgeting.

• Knowledge on Compute Hardware UCS, HP, Dell. SAN Storage DellEMC, HP, PureStorage. NAS Storage EMC ISILON, NetApp.

• Experience in Data Center Design, DR Solution, Active-Active Cluster Setup.

• Experience on the Cloud Technology, AWS, Azure, GCP.

• Experience in Operating Systems, Windows, Linux

• Experience in Containers Technologies like Kuberneties, Dockers, etc.

• Experience in Ansible and Terraform

• Deep Understanding and Experience in migration from cloud to on-premises vice versa.

• Hands on experience on at least 2/3 Hypervisors

• Hands on experience on TCP/IP networking with Cisco /Multi-vendor products.

• Comprehensive Knowledge in designing SDDC (Software Defined Data Center)

• In depth knowledge in Virtualization technologies, virtual switches, virtual storage and cloud service modeling.

• Clear understanding of Networking, Blade/Rack Server, Unified Storage and Converged Systems.

• Capacity in Understanding and Evaluating multi-vendor product offering.

• At least 5 years of hands-on software programming and architecture experience

• At least 3 years of hands-on business data and process architecture experience

• Experience in application architecture of Microsoft technology stack

• Experience in deriving holistic logical and physical diagrams

• Experienced in Architecture and Design using UML.

• Exposure on Infrastructure Sizing for applications and Web application security.

• Knowledge of Agile software development process methodologies.

• Ability to communicate with the business clients in non-technical terms.

• Good written and oral communication skills.

• Possess a proven and successful track record in designing complex IT projects/programs.

• Ability to prepare and give presentations.