Senior Mainframe Storage Architect

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Mainframe Storage Architect to define an architectural vision, set the target operating environment, and design resilient solutions across storage domains. You will prioritize NF requirements, guide technology choices, and lead complex architecture discussions with stakeholders.

Responsibilities include creating roadmaps, performing capability assessments, and ensuring scalable, secure storage for critical business components.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading and delivering mainframe storage architectures.
• Experience with encryption and fiber protocols.
• Proven ability to design scalable, resilient storage solutions.
• Experience with data center moves, DR exercises, and SAN replication.
• Ability to lead with minimal supervision and align with strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural vision and solution design for complex storage solutions.
• Develop architecture roadmaps across Business, Application, Data, and Technology.
• Create and prioritize non-functional requirements and a tech backlog.
• Lead design reviews and resolve architectural impediments.
• Educate teams on best practices and drive DevOps-aligned implementations.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Influence

Judgment

Leadership

Tools

Storage Architecture

Fiber Protocols

FICON

HCD/IOCP

I/O Performance

DASD

Brocade Directors

Hitachi DASD

IBM Virtual Tape TS7700s

SAN Design

Cost Benefit Analysis

Data Center Moves

Job description

• Define an architectural vision and solution supporting strategic outcomes for business products and services
• Define the target operating environment
• Design for client resiliency
• Assist with solution design and define non-functional requirements
• Work with stakeholders and service providers aligned to business strategic objectives
• Evaluate the impact of strategic design decisions
• Contribute to the architecture roadmap
• Create solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions across business, operations, and technology
• Prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog
• Create architecture roadmaps across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains
• Develop best practices and standardized templates
• Clarify architecture and assist with system design to support implementation
• Provide solution options to resolve architectural impediments
• Facilitate solution-driven discussions and lead the design of complex architectures
• Find creative solutions through domain knowledge, practical experiments, and proofs of concept
• Ensure architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educate team members on technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices
• Support selection of technology stacks and preferred technology products
• Perform design and code reviews to ensure non-functional requirements are met
• Collaborate with others, design and develop mainframe storage architecture, and set strategy across mainframe storage disk, engineering, and virtual tape

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading and managing multiple competing and dynamic deliverables with Mainframe Storage
• 10+ years of experience with Storage Architecture
• Experience with Encryption
• Experience with Fiber protocols and configuration
• Experience with FICON
• Experience with HCD/IOCP
• Experience with I/O Performance for DASD, Switches, and Virtual Tape
• Experience with refreshes/upgrades including Brocade directors/switches, Hitachi DASD, and IBM Virtual Tape (TS7700s)
• Experience with Storage Area Network (SAN) replication design and configuration
• Experience with capacity planning including networks/switches
• Experience with cost benefit analysis, consolidation, and reduction
• Experience with design and planning of data center moves, including data center role swaps between production and contingency/disaster recovery
• Experience with disaster recovery exercises
• Ability to lead and set direction under minimal supervision
• Ability to exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Knowledge of analytical thinking, architecture, solution design, technical strategy development, application development, collaboration, data management, DevOps practices, risk management, agile practices, automation, influence, solution delivery process, and test engineering
• Ability to work 1st shift in the United States of America
• 40 hours per week

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in Mainframe Storage Architecture, including design, implementation, and management of complex storage solutions. Proficient in leading architectural vision and solution design while ensuring alignment with business strategic objectives and non-functional requirements.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Mainframe Storage Architecture
• Storage Area Network (SAN) Design
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Encryption Experience
• Capacity Planning

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Storage Architecture
• Fiber Protocols
• FICON
• HCD/IOCP
• I/O Performance
• DASD
• Brocade Directors
• Hitachi DASD
• IBM Virtual Tape (TS7700s)
• Cost Benefit Analysis

Soft Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Influence
• Judgment
• Leadership

Industry Keywords

• Architecture Roadmap
• Solution Design
• Non-Functional Requirements
• Technical Strategy Development
• Solution Delivery Process

Tools & Technologies

• Data Center Management
• Disaster Recovery Exercises
• Agile Practices
• DevOps Practices
• Automation