Principal Vdi Architect - Houston, United States - WM
Description
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength.WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
To enable our business to expand our lead in a market increasingly enhanced by technology, WM is undertaking a substantial technology transformation.
We are seeking talented Information Technology professionals to join the WM team who are motivated to help us transform the way we design, build and use technology.
With your skills and experience, we look for you to combine your technical expertise with industry best practices in an effort to align information technology solutions with WM business strategy.
I. Job Summary
Recognized across the organization for functional expertise and sought as a resource for resolution of unique or complex IT architecture problems.
Works closely with the product development, product delivery (operations) and project management teams to define the strategic architecture direction, policy and standards.
Provides direction for complex systems across multiple architectural layers, business domains and delivery teams. Effectively influences, negotiates and leads technology initiatives, alternatives, evaluations and implementations. Focuses on software and hardware infrastructure components of solutions along with corresponding roadmaps.II. Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. Other ancillary duties may be assigned.
Maintain Virtual Desktop Environments on premises and in the cloud.
Perform necessary system maintenance in accordance with company change management policies.
Develop functional requirements through interaction with end-users and coordinate with support teams on systematic enhancements or changes.
Troubleshoot complex issues within the VMware environment
Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance for the Horizon virtual desktop environment.
Assist in the review of security audit data to assess potential risks and security vulnerabilities.
Acts as mentor and coach to key technical staff.
III. Supervisory Responsibilities
Will coach and mentor less-experienced personnel and act as team leader on more complicated systems projects.
IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.
A. Education and Experience
Education:
Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, or similar area of study or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant work experience.
Experience:
Ten years of prior work experience including three years of experience as a Technical Architect, Infrastructure Architect and/or Systems Architect (in addition to education requirement).
B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other RequirementsNone required.
C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
Technically advanced or in-depth knowledge or skills in one or more of the following is required:
Present, communicate and articulate effectively to all levels of the organization (including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership, VPs and C-level executives).
Experience in a fortune 500 company as a technical architect, infrastructure architect and/or systems architect preferred.
Ten or more years of increasing responsibility in technical IT roles with three or more years of experience in one or more of the following roles: Technical Architecture, Systems architecture, Solutions architecture, Systems planning and integration, or Strategic IT planning.
Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs.
Three or more years as a technical leader with expert technical domain expertise in three or more of the following: Virtualization, ESRI, Content Management, Presentation Technologies (VDI, Citrix), SSO/SiteMinder, Web Services/SOA frameworks and technologies, Enterprise Storage, (FC, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI,..)
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