Ford Solutions Architect - Infra_security 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

577722911

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Job Overview

Proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions inc lude projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

Role & Responsibilities

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure Infra & security solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Promote a culture of security within the organization.
• Align application security strategies with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Design security solutions to protect enterprise data, applications, and infrastructure.
• Stay current with the latest security tools, trends, and technologies.
• Extensively automated deployments and managed applications in GCP.
• Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to identify optimization strategies, help develop self-healing capabilities
• Experience in developing a strong observability capabilities
• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement
• Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services, or systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information).
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products
• Provides architecture solution to modernize existing on-prem system and promote cloud migration
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions

Required Skills and Selection Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or Information Technology Or a related study
• 8+ years of work experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, data management, EDA, and cloud development.
• Relevant security certifications such as Cloud Security
• Proven work experience in Docker/Kubernetes (image building, k8s schedule)
• Experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm or Kustomize.
• Proven working experience in onboarding and troubleshooting Cloud Services.
• Recent 2-3 years of work experience as an Enterprise / Solution Architect
  Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• In depth knowledge of full stack and Microservices architectures, hands on in NodeJS, ExpressJS, Angular, React, ReactNative and GraphQL
• Hands on in two of the three cloud areas AWS, GCP, Azure
• Ability to set up a devops pipeline for end-to-end automated deployment
• Good understanding of nuances of high performing Enterprise web and mobile application development
• GCP Certification is an advantage
• knowledge of salesforce cloud will be an added advantage
• Understanding of Agile, Devops and DevSecOps