IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Duration: 4 Months

Job Location: Greenville, SC

Client: BMW MC

Onsite Role

Client Notes:

Data Visualization/Platform Team – providing the platforms Qlik,Tableau or PowerBI at the moment. This team needs someone who can help steer platforms. They do not need developers. More product owners and Administrators who know the platforms and what is needed. Qlik is the primary platform. Then Tableau is a secondary platform and PowerBI would be another. They are migrating to the cloud so anyone who has experience with migrations to the cloud would be ideal candidates. The candidate must have AWS experience. They need to know how to operate within the Cloud. Ideally they would be operating the platforms in the cloud. Migration isn't critically but operating within the cloud is required.

Must have strong foundational IT skills. They should know how to operate in the operating systems (Linux and Windows). They should know basic networking. SQL knowledge is needed as well. Understanding how BI tools work. Know the different components of the frontend and backend and how it all works together. Understand how the processes of the upgrade, testing and follow through happen. Experience with the BI tool, SAS solution and API would be needed. Understanding how API calls work would be needed. If someone knows how to program API calls that would be nice to have. Will be responsible for provider steering with offshore vendor and direct work packages to be completed by the offshore vendor. Leadership skills are required and being able to collaborate across from vendor to operations team to the customers. Customers can be very high level to basic user level. Must be able to interact with various people and possess excellent communication skills.

Hours: 8am-5pm (some meetings outside this very rarely though)

Must have: Must have experience with one of the platforms (Qlik, Tableau, PowerBI). Must have strong foundational IT skills. Must be able to interact with various user levels and have excellent communication skills.

Nice to have: Clicksite would a nice to have. Provider steering experience would be ideal. In addition, migration experience for Cloud would be ideal as well.

What You'll Do: 

• Leads the planning, implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructure solutions and platforms that perform to defined functional and operational expectations.
• Delivers high-quality IT architectural systems and infrastructure designs with an eye for building the designed systems accounting for existing technical debt, any development bottlenecks and architecture initiatives to drive service delivery, optimize cost and support established business goals.
• Establishes and maintains technical security architecture, availability, overall performance, and maintenance activities.
• Communicates and accurately documents all architectural decisions, plans, goals, and functional requirements.
• Serves as the IT architect and technical lead for service delivery of the scope of the built system by designing, reviewing and overseeing implementation of end-to-end integrated systems, enterprise data and metadata structures, as well as internal systems such as product deployment and licensing.
• Contributes to the definition of the product strategy and BI Target Enterprise Architecture by collaborating with other technical leads, project managers, business relationship managers and business analysts on a project team and across the organization.
• Identifies and proposes new BI ETA standards (products, master solutions and services).
• Ensures high quality by establishing a baseline and monitors technical metrics (i.e., code coverage, performance, scalability) that report the overall health of newly built IT systems.
• Recommends and facilitates quality improvement efforts. Stays up to date on future innovations, technical trends and applies this to direct future changes. Has knowledge of the solutions available as well as best practices for the business processes.
• Runs complex projects ensuring they are completed on time and within budget with only general direction from management.
• Serves as an IT project manager for small-medium sized projects overseeing resources assigned, conducts status meetings, and effectively communicates the project status to stakeholders as delegated by the Department Manager (Information Technology).
• Develops project plans, administers the release management process, and ensures that tasks are completed on time and within budget.

 
What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree is required preferably in IT field or equivalent of 4 years of related experience in Information Technology.
• Must have 5+ years experience in:
  • IT architecture and IT infrastructure components.
  • Enterprise systems analysis, systems design, and systems integration.
  • Driving products from concept and ideation through successful launch.
• Should have 3+ years working in:
  • Team employing standardized project delivery methods (both waterfall and agile).
  • IT application and/ or infrastructure maintenance.
  • Project Management.