Systems Architect

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Your missions:

Reporting to the Systems Service Delivery Leader and within the Corporate IT team, the Systems Architect is responsible to:

1. Develop 3 to 5 years strategy for the IT infrastructure product/service specialty areas and work through roadmap planning to ensure product/service life cycle components are replaced/renewed regularly thus ensuring IT infrastructure health is sustained.
2. Develop target and solution architecture for IT Systems & Hosting infrastructure product/service specialty areas, such as for server rooms, data centers, server virtualization, storage bays, hosting services including cloud-based services from MS Azure.
3. Support IT solution construction, implementation and system integration in IT Systems & Hosting infrastructure product/service specialty areas; and act as a project manager in the initial stages of the project management process, from ideation stage until end of feasibility stage.
4. Play an important role in the support structure as part of the escalation process, delivering product/service-related expertise.

Key missions:

1. Lead and be accountable for the success of IT Systems & Hosting infrastructure service/product development projects.
2. Consistently use IT architecture development techniques such as TOGAF, and develop target architecture, solution architecture for priority infrastructure services and/or products, including requirements collection.
3. Consistently use project management techniques such as initializing and planning projects, developing project cost structure, tracking and reporting project deliverables, managing risk, managing contracts, and applying project management processes and tools.
4. Develop 3-to-5-year long Systems & Hosting infrastructure product/service strategy, ensuring that the necessary architecture requirements are developed in a timely manner in order to execute the Systems & Hosting strategy through yearly Operating Plans that are properly budgeted/funded.
5. Participate in Architecture Review Board/Design Authority to ensure all service/product development work takes place in an aligned and coordinated way that matches overall IT enterprise strategy and architecture. As a participant in the ARB, help contribute to the overall development of the architecture competency in CEVA.
6. Participate in IT change programs at regional/global levels, in order that maximum business benefits can be achieved.
7. May take part in the deployment of regionally and globally developed solutions, and be responsible for operational excellence of the product/service developed.

Your profile:

• Bac+5, Engineering or related IT college/university degree, with 10 to 12 years of IT infrastructure experience, with up to 6 to 8 years of which was as the Systems Architect.

- Systems & Hosting domain specialty including DELL/HP servers, Windows OS, Active Directory, Oracle DB, virtualization, Azure services, integrations aspects related to ETL/API.
- RFP experience including SLA development, contract development, review and approval.
- Vendor performance management including effective governance & operational & management escalation with experience in managed services (remote server management).
- Ability to work across multiple groups and geographies and cultures to solve problems thus minimizing service level risk.
- Leadership skills in building consensus in managing remote teams and resolving conflicts and delivering effective results.
- Deep problem resolution and root cause analysis skills.
- Architecture development methodology experience or qualification + Project Management skills or certification.

- Experience in DELL/HP servers, Windows OS, Active Directory, Oracle/SQL DB, VmWare virtualization, JDE hosting, Azure services, integrations aspects related to ETL/API.
- ITIL Foundation Level Certification + Architecture Development Methodology (TOGAF).