Description
Position: Solution Architect
Location: Dearborn, MI
Duration: 12months +
Required:
6-10 years experience
Job Description:
Design the architecture for a major application migration project for a large manufacturing company to transfer applications from a Legacy data center into a cutting edge technology data center. Provide front line representation of the project to C-level executives. Analyze application portfolio to create application migration groups. Define application design, development, and deployment strategy for private cloud and public cloud. Direct onshore and offshore teams to perform analysis, remediation, and application migration activities. Design the migration factory.
Additional Skills:
- Ability to communicate with C-level executives about project status and overall project vision Experience managing 10+ teams, define KPIs for the project activities, and measure the teams progress against defined KPIs Ability to provide expert strategic advice for cloud application development, cloud application deployment, private versus public cloud options, virtualization, containerization, and DevOps Ability to describe data center service framework design
- Ability to provide expert strategic advice for data center migration strategy and key components of a data center migration
- Ability to discover application characteristics of Mainframe, midrange, and Wintel applications that will help define migration groups
- Experience assessing applications and application architecture
- Prepare a technical and architecture plan to achieve the stated goal and adjust the plans according to progress and interdependencies Provide cross-vendor communication in a multi-vendor project
- Experience with ITIL framework is preferred
- Experience with data center migration or application modernization is preferred
- Experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is not required but is recommended
- Using problem-solving, critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges
- Communicating in writing and verbally and with clarity
- Accountability for meeting commitments and deadlines. Demonstrates principled leadership and sound business ethics; shows consistency among principles, values, and behavior; builds trust with others through own authenticity and follow-through on commitments.
- Monitors progress of self and others and redirects efforts when goals are not being met.