Senior Architect
***All interviews will be in person and only local candidates will be considered.***
Looking for a Senior Architect to augment technical leadership and domain expertise in planning, design and orchestration of next generation systems. Job is located in Bethpage, NY with limited travel around Long Island area so a car is required.
Analytical Skills Experience
Broad understanding across a variety of technical disciplines. Enthusiastically work to extend knowledge in areas of particular interest to Client and its lines of business.
Rapidly deconstruct highly complex proprietary and 3rd party application systems, to determine operational and infrastructure requirements and identify areas improving resiliency, performance, and manageability, highlight scaling points, monitoring needs, etc.
Conceptual understanding of application architecture and the SDLC process.
Quickly assess current and future business needs and the affect that rapidly changing technology may have on those requirements.
Work on multiple large scale projects across lines of business in parallel.
Evaluate new product and client requirements. Determine how to leverage and optimize existing environments and designs or determine if new architectures are needed.
Determine costs and trade-offs for all options, work towards determining the best solution to a problem to meet requirements.
Evaluate reliability of all systems and processes. Design and implement solutions to improve reliability.
Technical Skills Experience
Candidates must have deep domain expertise and experience across a significant subset of these areas:
Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and related internals; storage; networking and load balancing technologies
Full lifecycle (SDLC) and application development technologies: SQL databases, LDAP, Java/J2EE, web services, XML, and web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Engineering/architecture principles (Object Oriented Design, Patterns, Service Oriented Architecture) and advanced application development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc).
TIBCO or equivalent workflow, messaging (JMS) and integration (ESB) platforms.
Virtualization platforms (VMware, etc) and related Cloud enabling technologies.
Ideal Candidates will have domain expertise and experience across several of these areas:
B/OSS transformation/modernization.
Architecting, implementation roll-out of STB applications (Voice, Video, Data), B/OSS solutions for cable service providers
Hands on with cable Plants and controllers (DAC and DNCS) as well the networks that support them (ex. Motorola ALOHA / Scientific Atlanta DAVIC networks).
Tru2Way, EBIF, Cablecard technologies, iTV Applications deployment
VOD systems Seachange, Tandberg and Concurrent
IT solutions for cable operators from concept to development to roll-out in the Video services
Knowledge of Cable Service Provider BSS, OSS, IT, and Engineering standards (CableLabs, TMF, ITIL, IETF, IEEE, ITU-T, 3GPP)
Set-top devices, applications and middleware technologies (Motorola, Scientific Atlanta, Panasonic)
Cable modems, eMTAs, VoIP
Similar Telecomm, Service Provider or high volume transaction systems experience is considered a plus.
Communications, Collaboration Relationship Skills
Verbally communicate very effectively on highly technical topics with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Effective executive communications skills - the ability to bi-directionally communicate with different people at the appropriate technical and business level for the situation.
Strong relationship building skills within and across business stakeholders and technology organization. Actively build bridges and break down barriers between their org/function to other parts of the organization and external resources. This should extend beyond personal relationships with peers to also fostering teaming at lower levels.
Influence skills with both executive and technologist audiences.
Collaborate across the entire organization to ensure adoption/compliance with architecture standards practices.
Engage stakeholders and interested parties for approval of technology roadmap, architecture, standards, life-cycle, etc., via cross-functional executive leadership groups.
Work with project teams and operations to build and help maintain complex, scalable, and resilient architectures to deliver web-scale, performant customer-facing products and services, in additional to internal systems.
Architecture Skills Experience
Architecting, building and maintaining complex and extremely reliable web-scale service provider systems, products and service. These systems, products and services span multiple lines of business, development teams and vendors.
Leading/conducting architecture reviews (infrastructure, application, solution architecture)
Establish/evolve infrastructure architecture that supports the short and long term needs of client products and services, providing optimized customer experience, availability, scalability and total cost of ownership.
Track record of successful innovation and providing effective, impactful leadership for cross-organization technology strategy.
‘Standards Practices’ Skills Experience
Define operational requirements for new application systems and ensuring their adherence to established operations standards and industry best practices.
Defining/updating Infrastructure architecture and standards.
Long-range planning e.g. technology roadmap and architecture in all relevant operational technology domains, working with relevant stakeholders.
Establish/evolve technology standards in relevant technology domains which comprise a list of products that are approved for enterprise deployment, as well as life-cycle view of these products.
Establish/evolve architecture review process and standards review. This includes tool due diligence, requirements gathering, deployment and process inception.
Establish/evolve technology life-cycle, by which products are introduced into the environment as needed and ushered out of the environment as their support and currency becomes problematic, and as their relevancy becomes problematic vs. newer products or releases.
Publish above roadmap, architecture, standards, life-cycle, etc.
Please contact Jim Grogan at jgrogan@eclaro.com with a Word resume along with your hourly rate and availability. Thanks!