Data Integration Architect

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their business requirements and develop architecture solutions that meet their needs; • Collaborate with IT Security in the crafting and implementation of security policies; • Ensure seamless integration and communication between on-premise and SaaS environments; • Provide guidance on best practices for infrastructure architecture, security, and governance for Microsoft applications and infrastructure – MS Teams, Active Directory, Azure AD, Azure infrastructure, Exchange, etc.; • Create and maintain documentation for architectural designs, processes, and policies; • Assist with policy administration tasks to ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal policies; • Perform review and take corrective remediation actions, including patching and configuration changes, for any vulnerabilities or other security defects identified; • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure related issues; • Develop automation and self-service jobs for the app dev teams; • Build and support infrastructure to support new applications and microservices as we shift workload to the cloud and develop new cloud-native applications; • Evaluate application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications; • Define infrastructure delivery strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in the technical visions; • Develop tools to enable other engineers such as CI/CD pipelines, container schedulers, and custom applications. Education / Training • Bachelor’s degree (Tech major) preferred. High school diploma or GED and 4+ years related experience. Qualifications and Experience • Experience with deployment systems and security administration across major environments including VMWare, AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure; • Experience in implementing Secure Architectures for private and/or public internet facing systems; • Familiarity with traditional on-prem infrastructure practices to help design and plan a roadmap to migrate existing data infrastructure to cloud; • Experience and expertise in deploying and supporting online presentation and collaboration tools – MS-Teams, VDI, Appstream etc.; • Experience administrating systems from SSH and PowerShell; • Experience with IT automation technologies and Devops approaches; • Applied experience and knowledge of Infrastructure as Code; • Experience designing and developing fault tolerance and scalable systems; • Experience in Microsoft tool cost optimization; • Working knowledge of Shared Responsibility models; • 4 years’ experience working with Microsoft infrastructure or other PaaS solutions.