Infrastructure Solutions Architect Vice President

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** Infrastructure Solution Architect is a seasoned professional role, who applies in-depth IT knowledge and experience towards gathering and analyzing business / application requirements in support of Citi financial services.
** With the goal to design strategic target state architecture, using defined standards to maximize performance and capacity, while driving IT costs down.

They would be familiar with infrastructure Platform as a Service (PaaS), providing IT services within the private cloud, integrating orchestration and automation to quickly deliver solutions. A general knowledge of the financial services industry and how technology supports and enables those services is extremely beneficial.

** Responsibilities:*
* + Supporting CTI businesses as a trusted advisor for all solution tasks.

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** Architect and design target-state solutions for migrating traditional and stateful applications to container platforms like Open Shift and Kubernetes.*
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** Develop and enforce best practices and reference architectures for deploying, securing, and managing stateful workloads on container orchestration platforms.*
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** Collaborate with Dev Ops and application teams to create seamless CI/CD pipelines for containerized database deployments and updates** .

+ Engage in routine discussions with stakeholders (DBA, SA, Build, Business) regarding App/Business requirements.

+ Collaborate with application architects, developers, Dev Ops, and data teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

+ Ability to take ALL elements of a solution design and capture in both a narrative and diagram (Visio) form in such a way that stakeholders can understand.

+ Must grasp the technical aspects of an applications RTO / RPO when designing an infrastructure solution.

+ Evaluate new database technologies, tools, and services to continuously improve data architecture.

+ Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all database-related technologies and integration patterns.

+ Define and enforce database security, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance strategies.

+ Mentor and guide junior architects and engineers in best practices around data architecture and governance.

+ Support the organization's cloud transformation initiatives with a strong understanding of cloud-native and managed database services (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.).

+ Drive innovation and performance optimization initiatives across all database platforms.

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* Qualifications:

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* + Understanding how application requirements determine infrastructure type and size, including High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities.

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** Proven, hands-on experience architecting and leading the migration of complex, enterprise applications to container platforms such as Open Shift and Kubernetes.*
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** Strong understanding of container-native storage (CSI), networking, and security principles required for running mission-critical stateful workloads in production.*
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** Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Helm, Kustomize, Ansible) within a Kubernetes/Open Shift ecosystem.*
* + Experience as a Systems Admin or Systems Engineer is preferred. Experience in root-cause analysis techniques in a highly complex Data Center environment.

+ Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

+ Ability to develop working relationships, manage multiple projects with different priorities.

+ Team player with willingness to learn the latest technology, while taking initiative to master new tasks quickly.

+ Public Cloud Certifications is a plus.

+ Demonstrated expertise in Oracle, SQL Server, Postgre

SQL, and Mongo

DB - with practical experience in high-volume, mission-critical environments.

+ Hands-on experience designing data replication, partitioning, sharding, indexing strategies, and stored procedures.

+ Strong knowledge of data modeling, ETL processes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms.

+ Solid understanding of No

SQL technologies, distributed systems, and microservices-based architectures.

+ Familiarity with Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managed database services.

+ Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

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* Education:

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* + Bachelor Degree or 2-4 years relevant experience working with Enterprise systems.

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- ** Job Family Group:*
* Technology

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- ** Job Family:*
* Infrastructure

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- ** Time Type:*
* Full time

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- ** Primary

Location:

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* Irving Texas United States

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- ** Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:*
* $ - $

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