Infrastructure Architect

**Develop and implement SBV Infrastructure strategy aligned to SBV strategy**
- Develop and maintain the Infrastructure strategy, blueprints, roadmaps and other architecture artefacts for SBV, internal and vendor / cloud based.
- Partner with business, vendors and technology teams to develop an overall Infrastructure architecture to meet enterprise wide strategies.
- Create and maintain a catalogue and roadmap of Infrastructure and network artefacts
- Work with architects, business partners, vendors and project delivery teams to create solutions and roadmap of Infrastructure delivery aligned to strategy.

**Develop and maintain Infrastructure patterns**
- Develop the Infrastructure catalogue and patterns that can be used by delivery teams to standardise infrastructure delivery and improve quality of delivery.
- Guide, mentor and influence Infrastructure teams
- Responsible for complete infrastructure design, analysis, security, network and voice communication
- Ensure correct governance is followed by submitting all designs for approval by the Architecture review board
- Act as an expert for infrastructure teams in the planning, designing, and delivery of IT solutions

**Advise teams of IT technology standard requirements, methodology and processes**
- Drive the short and long term technology infrastructure strategy
- Participate in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy
- Communicate and validate architecture with the infrastructure team, project management team, and technology

**Conduct end-to-end technical plan design**
- Develop the long-term strategy and designs which align to the businesses requirements around BCM and DR
- Develop enterprise standards for infrastructure which support multi-vendor platforms
- Design and develop infrastructure blueprints for the implementation of new solutions

**Responsible for impact analysis and design modifications to existing systems to support new solutions**
- Develop specifications for infrastructure to support existing and new systems
- Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations
- Provide solutions where incidents and problems exist within designated areas of expertise
- Communicate and collaborate with local IT staff as well as vendors

**Minimum Requirements: Work Experience**

5 years’ experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas. Which also includes:

- Experience with architecture methodologies, such as TOGAF, ITIL, Zachman
- Experience in the use of VMware or other virtual software
- Deep understanding of TCP, IP and other network protocols. Familiarity with DNS, DHCP and other network services.
- Strong technical skills and understanding of the platform and tools - on premise and cloud - including the Microsoft stack, IBM integration (IIB, CD and BPM), enterprise content management systems.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure architectures and governance processes.
- Experience designing, integrating, and developing complex Infrastructure solutions.
- Experience with Infrastructure scalability and performance management and monitoring
- Domain expertise in financial and or logistics is preferred.
- Ability to write architectural design documents or review design documents provided by others.

**Minimum Requirements: Education**
- Bachelor’s in computer science or related field (Master’s Degree Advantageous)
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)
- Certifications in Windows OS (Advantageous)