What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineering Consultant position at VDart, Inc.?
Role: Principal Engineering Consultant
Location: Charlotte, NC(Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Experience:
- 7 years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5 years leading in a large data center distributed server environment within a financial institution
- 5 years of leadership experience in technology in fast-paced agile environments
- 5 years of delivery experience with a proven track record of success
- 5 years of software and/or Cloud engineering and/or operational experience
- 5 years of hands-on coding experience
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Define Data Center Core infrastructure build strategy
- Define neighborhood alignment strategies: Identify and execute appropriate alignment of technologies and business functions through migrations between neighborhoods
- Mitigate risks associated with dependencies and ensure proper sequencing of events
- Develop and maintain an integrated exit, build, and exit roadmap with execution schedules
- Align migration plans to major code releases to leverage Sector's already planned checkout/verification activities
- Conduct hands-on coding to develop and enhance systems related to migration/build/capacity activities and tracking progress
- Conduct testing to ensure that the systems work as expected
- Define multiple data migration strategies and use cases: database, object, NAS, backup, unstructured user data
- Mitigate Risk concentration. Spread out migrations over different timeframes, i.e., do not migrate core Retail Banking & Cards applications in the same timeframe
- Identify non-standard hosting solutions, define migration strategy: Unisys, Teradata, iSeries. Assess multi-tenancy apps, ensure necessary resilience and capacity is built in target sites. Requires approach for applications and shared services
- Leverage site design for improved resilience and higher levels of workload (increased densification on host platforms)
- Manage delivery tower engineers, target data center landing zone infrastructure builds. Ensure Client technology standards, design principles, and architecture standards are followed