Type: Contract (12 months, potential extension)
Hybrid Work: 3 days in the office
About the Role
A leading technology-driven organization is seeking a highly skilled Lead Platform Architect to join their Shared Components Service Delivery team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, defining, and implementing infrastructure frameworks, ensuring the highest standards of security, scalability, reliability, and availability.
This is an exciting opportunity for a technical leader who is passionate about systems architecture and infrastructure design, with the ability to drive best practices and technical excellence in a fast-paced, global environment.
Key Responsibilities:
* Gather requirements, conduct infrastructure analysis, and design solutions that align with security, scalability, and operational standards.
* Work closely with engineering teams to ensure all high-level requirements are met.
* Develop and maintain architectural documents, logical flows, and technical memos.
* Ensure all architectural designs remain current and are updated as needed.
* Implement and support application infrastructure components, leveraging industry best practices.
* Identify and resolve architectural and operational issues impacting infrastructure performance.
* Define and enforce standards for infrastructure and platform architecture.
* Research and evaluate new technologies for potential deployment.
* Lead regional projects, managing planning, resource utilization, and implementation.
* Participate in incident/problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.
* Contribute to performance tuning, capacity planning, and configuration management.
Candidate Profile
Must-Have Skills:
* Hands-on expertise with F5 and load balancers.
* Strong knowledge of Zero Trust and network microsegmentation.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience:
* 10+ years of experience in a lead platform architect role.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
* Advanced knowledge of web application architecture and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) operations.
* Expertise in middleware technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching).
* Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, application security, and encryption (SSL/TLS).
* Working knowledge of cloud technologies, role-based access control, authentication, and authorization.
* Familiarity with manifest-based deployments, YAML, and troubleshooting.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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