Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Position: Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Duration: 6-12-month contract (extensions possible)

Location: HYBRID in Lansing, MI (onsite 2 days/week)

Pay Rate: $60-70/hour (depending on experience)

Required Experience:

• 10 years of IT infrastructure experience
• 3-5 years of infrastructure architecture experience
• Design and architecture experience for both native and hybrid cloud environments
• 5 years of Windows server experience
• 5 years of experience creating, updating, and maintaining systems documentation
• 5 years of RHEL/OpenShift experience
• 3 years of SQL/Oracle experience
• 3 years of network administration experience

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with F5

Description:

The Infrastructure Solutions Architect will be responsible for designing solutions for networks and supporting modernization projects for SQL and Red Hat. This is a hybrid position, candidates are required to be onsite 2 days a week in Lansing, MI.

• Coordinate and integrate system data models and design to promote data sharing, eliminate redundancy, and provide for the efficient and effective use of the state’s data resources.
• Coordinate with and provide technical advice to the Project Manager to develop project plan.
• Coordinate with data stewards to develop, communicate, and enforce Data Classification policies and standards.
• Create and maintain the metadata repository. Including developing and maintaining a formal description of the data, data structures, and data flow diagrams.
• Create, maintain, and verify system level design.
• Define and enforce data standards, procedures, and guidelines to ensure data integrity, dependability, quality, and usability through the use of appropriate security, verification, and data management practices.
• Develop an Information Architecture Model supporting, and consistent with, Enterprise Information Management.
• Develop and maintain the statewide data model for to ensure integrated use across all applications.
• Develop and manage configuration management standards, processes, and policies.
• Document application controls needed to meet security standards.
• Ensure data integration with internal organizations and with external business and IT communities.
• Evaluate and recommend software fixes to resolve problems.
• Facilitate/lead team members for any application environment consolidation, migration, or integration efforts.
• Gather, organize, and track requirements and issues related to IT solutions.
• Lead in implementation, for IT solutions.
• Make recommendations to the application developers on software integration for existing software.
• Perform development of a data management strategy, to ensure data security and appropriate data retention.
• Prepare for and provide an organized and professionally facilitated environment for SDT sessions.
• Provide data modeling and design guidance including identification of data entities, data dependencies and data relationships.
• Recommend solutions based on TIA of proposed infrastructure changes to ensure feasibility and cost effectiveness.
• Review Enterprise Architecture Solution Patterns/Reference Models for specific agency application system.
• Analyze EA Solution Assessments cataloged in EA SA Library for similar system design guidelines.
• Revise and validate project management documents, by applying DTMB PMM and SEM to IT solutions.
• Revise and validate technical designs, specifications, and diagrams.
• Verify the architectural integrity of the application environment.

IG Consultants: While on contract, you will be an Insight Global employee working for a particular company/end client on W2.

• Pay Day: You will be paid out each Friday and one week in arrears. This means you will receive payment for this week’s hours next Friday.
• Holidays/Time Off: While a consultant through Insight Global, the hours you work are they hours you will be paid. We do not offer paid sick days, paid time off, or paid holidays, except as required by applicable law.
• Consultant Benefits: Group Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance, 401(k) Savings Plan, and Flexible Spending Account benefit plans. In addition, consultants have access to 12 FREE mental health sessions per year through Lyra Health. New hires are eligible for benefits on DAY ONE of their contract.