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As a Senior Architect, you will be instrumental in bringing innovative ideas to fruition. Your role will be central to the successful integration of disruptive technologies within the organization. The senior architect is capable of working across multiple technology domains and developing a solution and presenting the design. The Senior Architect provides deep technical knowledge and architectural design mentorship at a platform and portfolio level and will be a key contributing architect on large/complex projects with a variety of components. The Senior Architect is capable of presenting designs and ideas to an Architecture Review Board.Key Responsibilities:Working with senior level engineers, architects and platform owner to set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives.Aligning efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives.Participating in design reviews to ensure both deliveries of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.Driving key architecture decisions to solve critical complex problems for assigned and adjacent platforms. Working with the Company Platform Owner and senior architects to guide Technical Platform architecture and engineering teams.Focusing on driving architecture towards long-term Business Unit/Enterprise goals and objectives. Partnering with business leadership to influence priorities and objectives.Capturing best-practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams. Networking with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs and enterprise-wide research projects.Desired Qualifications15+ years of Network Infrastructure andFinancial Services industry experienceExperience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural conceptsExperience with Agile methodologies and demonstrated ability to operate in this modelStrong communication skills ability to facilitate technical conversations with non-technical stakeholdersMust be proficient in routing protocols, particularly eBGP and iBGPMust have experience with interdisciplinary infrastructure such as DNS and AD and interdependencies to data networkingExperience with architecture and solution development in the following technologiesPublic Cloud; AWS, Azure, Oracle, Kindral/IBM zCloud, GogglePrivate Cloud, Software Defined Data CenterSD-WAN, VeloCloud or equivalent productInfrastructure Security concepts and strategiesDevOps methodologiesInfrastructure as Code (IaC), Hashicorp Terraform, Ansible Tower, Python Deployment and/or Custom ScriptingHashi Corp ConsulNetworking platforms,firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco) routing/switching (Cisco, Arista, Cumulus etc.), DNS/DHCP (Infoblox), application load balancers proxy servers (NetScope, Forcepoint)Confluence, Jira, SlackCollaboration, Voice and Video platformsBachelor’s Degree in related technical discipline with 10+ years of network architecture experienceStrong verbal and written communication skillsSelf-motivation with the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing technology and business environmentExperience supporting a multi-platform network environment with demonstrated ability to lead the integration of new technologies through the complete solution lifecycleProven architecture leadership experienceAbility to apply sound network architecture principles to set the tone and pace for the maturation of the programProven ability to influence and gain trust at a peer group in business and technology levels in multi-culture environmentsAbility to manage complex activities simultaneously to short timescalesAbility to demonstrate continuous improvementRequired: Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.Preferred: Master's degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.