The responsibility of the Middleware Solutions Architect is to act as a Consultant on application and infrastructure development projects with regard to middleware infrastructure issues and operational concepts. Additionally responsible to design business-specific solutions, while leveraging the standard services provided by the TAF Partners. The Solution Architect orchestrates the use/ consumption of the Infrastructure middleware services and involves Technology Domain & Innovation architects on demand for non-standard service requests and projects.

 

Responsibilities:

• Serve business demands of customer units by designing business-specific solutions and translating them as standard services from-TAF Partner (solution design only for exceptional cases) (30%)

• Support the Business Partner Manager and act as a consultant in addressing any technical questions related to the services offered by TAF partner (20%)

• Orchestrate the use/ consumption of standard services from the TAF Partner platform and other IT related services (15%)

• Supervise the implementation process from a technical perspective. Support on "last level" for complex environmental issues based on deep application and platform know-how (15%)

• Act as interface to Technology Domain & Innovation Architects and Portfolio Management to update the service catalog (10%)

• Analyze and specify technical requirements for infrastructure that require profound expert knowledge (10%)

 

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of application. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

This position requires a minimum of 5+ years of overall work experience. Preferred experience includes:

• Information Technology - 5+ years of experience

• Strategy - 1 year of experience

 

Education:

High School Diploma/(GED) is required, Bachelor's Degree is preferred. Recommended majors include:

• Computer/Information Science

• Information Technology

Skills:

• Analytical Skills

? Ability to collect data and establish facts and identify trends and variances

• Facilitation Skills

? e-Technologies/Web

• IT Skills

? Database

? e-Technologies/Web

? Middleware; Networking

? Operation system; Server administration

? Programming

• PC Skills

? Microsoft Office

• Project Management Skills

? Team Member

Additional Skills:

• Type of Work: Operational Concepts and PoC’s of Middleware Technologies and Platforms

• Areas of Work: Middleware IT-Operations PLAN/BUILD, Middleware Security, Middleware Platforms (MQ, Linux, VMWare, Firewall etc.)

• Mandatory Knowledge:

? Deep Know-how on IBM MQ & ESB, RabitMQ, JBoss, Apache Kafka, Tomcat, Red Hat Fuse Connectors. API Management, Linux and Apache Kafka

? Architecture know-how of Servers, VM, Container, Network and Firewall

? Expert knowledge of Kubernetes/Docker and CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Git, artifactory)

? Cloud Design Patterns (e.g. Hybrid Cloud) and architectures (e.g. IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS)

? Knowledge regarding requirements of the application design • Knowledge of IT Security controls, technologies, and patterns

? Project management skills and knowledge of creative methods in agile environments (i.e. "design thinking", Scrum, SAFE, etc.)

? DevOps culture, methodology, and toolchain

? Demand management, IT Service Delivery, ITIL Service Operation

? Ability to review complex architecture blueprint and elaborate it to TAF as we as a business partner

• Necessary Knowledge:

? Excellent knowledge in IT-Operations processes (ITIL)

? Experience of large scale IT-operations in a multinational company

? MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

• Interdisciplinary Skills:

? Technical problem-solving skills

? Team player • Presentation & communication skills

 

Posted On: Friday, January 7, 2022
Compensation: $80,000 - $120,000