System Architect

System Architect

Salary: €115,000 - 125,000 yearly

Azienda: Udc

Tipo Lavoro: Full Time

Italy

Descrizione Lavoro - System Architect

Full-time

Description

UDC is seeking a full-time System Architect to serve as an enterprise technology professional for the Enterprise Architecture Practice Area, providing technical direction and problem-solving expertise for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects.

What you will do

Performs configurations, installations, upgrades, testing, tuning, support, and other implementation-related tasks. Supports business development efforts by designing solutions, creating statement of work content, estimating levels of effort, and generating project schedules for general proposals as well as Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), and Request for Qualifications (RFQ) responses. Provides sales support via customer visits and thought leadership blogs, conference presentations, and other high-visibility activities.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following (other duties and responsibilities may also be assigned):

• Leads and contributes to GIS Enterprise Architecture workshops and related discussions involving utility customers and prepares relevant presentation content and questions in advance.
• Provides overall technical expertise for system design, implementation, assessment, consulting, and managed service engagements.
• Serves as a member of the UDC Information Technology (IT) team, supporting internal technology needs based on a targeted billable-overhead ratio. This design tasks for managing physical server, storage, network, and appliance infrastructure in UDC datacenters.
• Manages technical deliverables for projects and the Practice Area, including architectural diagrams, use-cases, requirements gathering, solution design, test cases, administration guides, deployment manuals, and other specification documentation.
• Facilitates and participates in GIS road mapping workshops for utility customers.
• Builds high-level and detailed Enterprise Architecture diagrams that include specifying all required software, hardware, network, database and enterprise geodatabase, storage, security, integration, and other enterprise components.
• Authors UDC’s system architecture specification document for deployments that encompasses a standard set of architecture views and implementation release schedule.
• Designs database solutions, including enterprise geodatabases.
• Validates system requirements, determines system configuration, and estimates system sizing using a variety of tools and in alignment with industry standards and best practices.
• Provides technical guidance and consulting for UDC’s clients to embrace security in their datacenters and educates UDC’s clients on what it takes to create and manage a private network from a network communications and administration standpoint.
• Provides technical architecture direction for software development teams, quality assurance personnel, and training staff when required.
• Maintains visibility of software application licensing to ensure license agreements are followed.

What we look for from you

• 11-16 years of work experience in enterprise system consulting and large-scale technology projects, preferably for utility customers.
• 6-11 years of work experience in enterprise GIS with a combination of system design, Enterprise Architecture, system implementation, and system administration.
• Thorough background in deploying, configuring, administering, and supporting Esri ArcGIS products, including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online.
• In-depth implementation, configuration, and administration experience with datacenter virtualization and hypervisor platforms such as VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, and Nutanix.
• Prior experience with configuring enterprise system security solutions as well as a thorough understanding of the related options and best practices.
• Enterprise configuration experience with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) technologies from major vendors such as NVIDIA and AMD.
• Solid understanding of Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing and reverse proxy solutions such as F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, and Citrix ADC (NetScaler).
• Competent with managing enterprise applications including Microsoft Office 365 (including SharePoint), Azure DevOps, Citrix, and VMware vSphere.
• Prior experience with Esri and other system monitoring and tuning tools such as ArcGIS Monitor, Dynatrace, and SolarWinds.
• Familiarity with integration tools such as Kafka, Bo