Infrastructure Architect

Role : M&A Infrastructure Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA

Key Responsibilities

• Scenario Planning & Transformation Mapping: Develop plans and estimates for transitioning from current to future states in coordination with the M&A center of excellence.
• Technical Design Deliverables: Produce design documents that enable infrastructure delivery teams to deploy robust, flexible, scalable, supportable, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the IOPS M&A Integration Lead to extend infrastructure architecture capacity for the acquisition and divestiture pipeline.
• Standards & Design Patterns: Analyze and promote standards and design patterns that align with established enterprise architectural goals.
• Emerging Technologies: Provide guidance on integrating emerging technologies and industry trends for technology integration and disentanglement of systems.
• Communication: Facilitate group virtual/physical whiteboard sessions to gain alignment on integration direction. Specific Responsibilities Include
• Define and maintain the current, transition, and future state infrastructure architecture integration blueprint and roadmap for active acquisitions and divestitures.
• Learn and promote the current Cox Automotive IT infrastructure portfolio, standards, and procedures in designs and recommendations. Document any recommended variances and guide them through the approval process.
• Partner with key stakeholders in the acquired company and CAI Infrastructure and Operations Platforms to define a roadmap and advance towards a future vision.
• Stay informed about technology trends, differentiate between emerging, hype, and mainstream evolution, and assess their impact on transformations.
• Evaluate the impact of incoming capacity on Operations and Engineering teams. Produce readouts to inform work planning for downstream teams.
• Produce appropriate design artifacts representing desired changes in technical architecture.
• Address system quality attributes relating to infrastructure architecture, such as efficiency or availability, and recommend solutions.
• Contribute to high-level estimates in support of business case development.
• Serve as a technical point of interface for infrastructure platform engineers, reviewing designs where appropriate and driving improved service and relationships between integrating groups.
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical advisor with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Other responsibilities as required to support the company's growth.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience in the integration and divestiture of technologies using structured design and
  
  

architecture processes in a corporate environment.

• 3 years’ experience with M&A activities including technology integration and due diligence.
• Experience in the design of multi-tiered technology architecture.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more layers of the infrastructure stack and comprehensive
  
  

understanding of all layers including transport protocols, network, compute, virtualization,

DAS/NAS/SAN storage, monitoring, and security.

• Working knowledge of cloud computing concepts particularly related to IaaS and PaaS approaches.
• Architecture Modeling as well as the ability to effectively deliver presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. Evidenced by the ability to communicate
  
  

across all levels of an organization.

• Experience leading the design and implementation of architecture changes.
• Effective use of communication tools/methods such as PowerPoint and Lucid.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
  
  

Please share resumes to adam@sidramtech.com