Enterprise Architect

Droisys; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Director/Enterprise Architect with over 15 years of experience to lead initiatives in managing enterprise-level IT systems and cloud strategies. Ideal candidates will possess deep technical acumen, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels within client organizations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Director/Enterprise Architect roles.
• 10+ years of design/implementation/consulting for distributed applications.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise-level IT infrastructure and oversee cloud strategies.
• Interact with CxO-level clients and understand their business domains.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and communication with diverse stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Enterprise-level infrastructure management

Software design or development

Infrastructure architecture

IT Security

Data Center Operations

IP Networking

Job description

Responsibilities

• 15+ years of experience in Director/Enterprise Architect level positions including:
  
  
  
  • Enterprise-level infrastructure management
  
  
  
  


• Breath of expertise in Cloud Computing, technologies and architectural best practices


• 10+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications


• Breath of experience across the Enterprise IT in many of the following areas:
  
  
  
  • Software design or development
  
  
  • Infrastructure architecture
  
  
  • Content distribution
  
  
  • Database architecture
  
  
  • IP Networking
  
  
  • IT Security
  
  
  • Data Center Operations
  
  
  • Enterprise Applications
  
  
  
  


• Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer or partner IT landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of our platforms and services in conjunction with business requirements


• Expert level ability to understand the business domain of the customer or partner and the business problems the customer or partner is facing, with the intent to solve the business problems


• Expert level ability to interact with senior leadership (e.g. CxO’s) within a customer or partner organization


• Strong leadership capabilities, having the ability to communicate effectively with diverse set of customers or partners, across multiple disciplines


• Strong presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and Executive audiences


• Be mobile and travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 25-50% travel requirement

Qualifications

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience in architecting complex use cases leveraging a multi-vendor environment technologies


• Demonstrated experience in managing executive Customer relationships and key business stakeholders


• Have an understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Enterprise IT management frameworks, identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets


• Broad Enterprise systems experience including SAP, Oracle, MSFT and custom Java/.NET applications


• Designing, building, and operating global IT infrastructures