The role combines technology and leadership with customer focus. The role requires a business and technology capable individual to engage with customers to develop enterprise solutions with a core focus on company Portfolio.
This role is suitable for people who have:
- A client facing technology consulting background focusing on business requirement gathering and analysis and technology enablement
- Demonstrable experience and deep knowledge in enterprise architecture design and consulting for a broad range of technologies towers such as Infrastructure, networking, Hyper scalers (Public Cloud) and Applications. Ideally a background in Hybrid Architecture & Cyber Security would be desirable too
- Experience of developing and managing business requirements gathering and architecture design work as part of a customer engagement team
- Experience of managing and performing critical analysis of technology and associated processes, with a view to recommending strategies that will improve service, lower costs and prevent unforeseen operational issues.
- Experience of delivering transformational projects or change programs within enterprise clients
- Good commercial approach to New Business solutioning, with the ability to drive solutions based on limited information and assumptions, whilst observing cost models
- Experience with designing, implementing and running FINOPS programs based on the FINOPS Foundation
- Experience in building and managing an Enterprise Architecture team
- Excellent written and verbal communication and customer facing skills
- The successful individual must have a passion for the customer and the technology supporting their business demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the client company's customer experience.
The successful candidate should have a strong background in the following areas:
Cloud and Enterprise architectures, virtual infrastructure (compute, network and storage), security, compliance, isolation in multi-tenant environments, next-generation collaboration and end-user computing, backup, disaster avoidance and recovery and IT operations.
The candidate must possess strong communication skills, technical presence, and leadership, and be able to demonstrate solid services delivery experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead & manage a team of technical consultants including setting goals, expectations, and ensuring team alignment to corporate metrics
- Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development to resources
- Grow and manage the team through establishment of appropriate people development processes – hiring, frequent feedback loops, and appropriate adjustments
- Engage with customers to define overall solution being able to bridge the business to technology conversation
- Analyze customer technology, organization & processes and recommend optimization and best practice improvements
- Analyze and make recommendations for a change program in order to drive operational efficiencies based on moving to a cloud /DevSecOps operating model
- Provide architecture overview and quality assurance for programs
- Shape overall solution with customer teams and progress to design and implementation stage
- Work with customer technology, application, security and business stakeholders to ensure that all requirements are gathered and documented to the agreed plan
- Potentially own the delivery plan and assume delivery manager role for team of multiple resources
- Perform due diligence on proposed designs, identifying potential issues with the execution and operational architectures and recommend possible options
- Interface with other technology groups to promote common tools and standards at a global level
- Perform impact analysis of proposed major changes to the process / technology landscape of customer systems
- Maintain a close relationship between with customers’ architecture teams
Mandatory & Desired Skills:
- Demonstrated strong organizational skills and ability to lead a large team of strong technical consultants
- Experience managing direct teams of 15+ individuals
- Significant familiarity with 5 or more domains (e.g cloud platforms, security, infrastructure, tech strategy, business strategy, etc)
- Strong public cloud experience with 5+ years of architectural expertise
- Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and understand the technical roles needed to organize a team to develop technical solution
- Proven experience in leading large complex technical cloud initiatives
- Excellent skills in the areas of interpersonal communication, self-awareness, social acumen and personal credibility
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $65.18/hour - $101.85/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.