Enterprise Technical Architect

Job title: Enterprise Technical Architect - Cloud Services

Overview:

Are you passionate about technology and interested in joining a community of collaborative colleagues who respectfully and courageously seek to challenge the status quo? If so, read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity with Blue Yonder Cloud Services. We are insatiably curious and life-long learners focused on technology and innovation.

Scope:
The Technology and Infrastructure organization is bringing innovation to the forefront of the business. Architecting cutting edge technology solutions and evolving legacy platforms to modern architectures is a business imperative. Network Architect will identify, evaluate, architect and recommend best of breed technology approaches to solve the business and customer problems, aligned with proper architecture standards and best practices. This role will interface directly with Blue Yonder customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver solutions, identify and deliver incremental revenue opportunities. This role entails overseeing the Infrastructure and network architecture functions to ensure timely, efficient and quality designs aligned to the strategic direction set out by the office of the CTO.

What you'll do:

The successful candidate will design and implement enterprise solutions focused in the areas of network (LAN, WAN, Wireless) and data center technologies. This role works closely with other engineers and architects to develop technical platform summary documents, strategic roadmaps and to implement new technologies as part of large-scale lifecycle programs and enterprise key initiatives.

• Lead the strategy for network architecture and network services to support data, voice, video, telephony, and other network dependent technologies
• Continuously identify simplification opportunities in the infrastructure's technical business processes and driving these efforts to completion
• Design and recommend network solutions to integrate with current and planned infrastructure
• Work with senior leadership and IT partners to build and develop tactical plans that include strategy and fiscal requirements
• Provide advice and consulting support to the project teams directly or through team members
• Maintain a close understanding of the business issues, operating procedures and priorities. Look for opportunities to improve our business agility
• Drive continuous improvement in service delivery processes to accelerate provisioning of new systems
• Collaborate with other enterprise architects to ensure data center designs are aligned with business requirements
• Participate in architectural forums with technical resources across all departments
• Build and maintain technical documentation including technical platform summary documents and strategic roadmaps

What we are looking for:

• At least 8 years of experience in network engineering strategy, architecture, design, and implementation as applied to complex computing systems
• Minimum 15 years relevant industry experience

• Demonstrable experience working with Cisco routing and switching technologies, including data center network design
• Experience architecting complex, secure networks for infrastructure modernization efforts
• Experience in developing dynamic networks with infrastructure redundancy, and network link diversity to ensure high availability and disaster recovery
• Exceptional documentation skills that can clearly articulate technical designs, issues and constraints, procedures, and network assessments
• Deep comprehension of networking concepts including network design principles, data flow determination, routing, switching, VLANs, IP addressing, etc.

• Familiarity with network scanning/analysis procedures and toolsets for network readiness assessments
• Solid understanding of advanced networking technologies, virtualization technologies, and solutions including MPLS, virtual route forwarding, virtual device contexts, multicast routing, policy-based routing, ether-channel, QoS, traffic-shaping, load balancing, VPN tunnels, WAN Optimization, etc.
• Understanding data center networking equipment including Nexus 9K / 7K / 5K/ 2K series data center switches, catalyst series switches, Cisco routers, DR integration, etc.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills regarding technical and non-technical concepts

• Solid understanding of layered network and security protocols

• Strong analytical and problem determination/resolution skills

Our Values

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