Technical Architect

This is a contract to hire position with the initial contract term being 6 months.

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for driving the technical architecture for our customers.  The resource must have technical prowess in many areas of technology including storage, servers, and virtualization.  This resource must have vast experiences in cross data center migrations.

Responsibilities:

• Create and define technical landscapes and architecture for large enterprise systems
• The ability to manage multiple technical projects with local and remote colleagues domestically and internationally.
• Serves as single point of contact for other project managers, functional team leads and managers.  Must interface with upper management.
• Must also interact with the customer directly to obtain technical details and requirements.
• Consistently displays model leadership qualities for team constantly enhancing performance and driving efficiency throughout the team.
• Supports and adheres to management of contractual agreements in compliance with company policies.
• Create a technical direction based on customer and internal direction.
• Aligns on-site team with central resources and other regional team leads to foster best practice, collaboration and mutual support.
• Up to 30% travel visiting client sites and datacenter locations

Business Skills and Knowledge:

• Ability to direct and coordinate efforts and actions across different functional service lines both domestically and internationally including virtualized teams.
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills; expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all management levels
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the functional teams
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Solid project management skills with ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross functional environment
• Best Practices experience or certification desired (ISO, ITIL, COBIT, Six Sigma), including regulatory compliances (SOX, SAS, HIPAA)
• Proven written and oral communications and presentation skills
• Experience with Disaster Recovery procedures
• Ability to successfully manage customer relationships, uncover needs and provide solutions support
• Maintaining vendor relationships and staying abreast of best practices and new technologies
• Ability to consult on best practices and solution options

Technical Qualifications:

Minimum of 10 years of relevant job experience required to date.  Experience should include exposure to large systems and data center migrations with a large exposure to heterogeneous environments.  Holding multiple current technical certifications in storage and virtualization is a plus.

• Expert level expertise on VMWare, ESX and the supporting tools including Virtual Center, SRM, HA\DRS, Capacity planner.
• The ability to design large scale virtual environments and migration strategies.
• Experience with storage virtualization, data migration solutions and best practices
• Experience with NetApp devices in multiprotocol environments
• Extensive NetApp experience including all Data OnTAP utilities and software
• Knowledge of Sun StorageTek, HDS and HP, EMC and IBM storage solutions
• Experience in architecture of Storage networks with all storage protocols
• Experience with all major operating systems, and the administration fundamentals
• Knowledge of Network (LAN/WAN) technologies and IT Security standards.

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