Enterprise Architect (M365)

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Remote - Located in Mountain or Pacific time zones

Type: Direct Hire

Job Description:

The primary responsibilities of the Enterprise Architect include strategy, design, implementation, and support of enterprise technology solutions for both cloud and on-premises environments. Assessment of new technologies and review of peer solution designs. Prospective candidates should reside in the Pacific or Mountain time zones and have the capability to attend regular off hours calls. This position collaborates with other IT team resources to drive transformation of technology and operational processes. Members of this role focus on a subset of the following disciplines: Microsoft 365 & Collaboration, Identity, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Networking, Automation, Security, Monitoring, Data Services, Virtualization, and Containers.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop complex enterprise solution designs, standards, patterns, strategies, and roadmaps, showcasing authoritative decision-making skills in guiding architectural direction.
• Document and present solution designs in Architecture Review Board meetings, demonstrating confidence and expertise in advocating for optimal architectural choices.
• Perform regular reviews of proposed solution designs, assessing them against design patterns, standards, compliance requirements, and industry best practices to ensure a reliable and secure solution is implemented.
• Demonstrate deep hands-on expertise and guidance in Azure, Active Directory, and EntraID, encompassing holistic architecture, identity management, group policy, SSO, application integrations, and security best practices.
• Architect and implement highly secure application integrations between on-premises systems and various cloud and SaaS platforms, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Evaluate commercial products for functionality and requirements to utilize them in a solution.
• Implement and manage information governance strategies, including the development and enforcement of sensitivity labels, to ensure secure handling and protection of confidential data across the enterprise ecosystem.
• Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives from start to closure.

Technical Skills:

• Candidates should demonstrate hands-on senior architect level technical acumen across most of these disciplines:Microsoft 365, Identity, and Collaboration architecture and administration.
• Windows administration, encompassing Active Directory, Group Policy, and system optimization.
• Cloud security best practices to protect data and applications.
• Identity strategies and integrations including LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, SCIM, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
• Azure IaaS, PaaS, Storage, Data Factory, Logic Apps, and Automation.
• Application development platforms, service-oriented architectures, streams, orchestrators, web services, and APIs.
• Software vulnerabilities testing and remediation (OWASP/SANS CWE).
• Application integration architecture design and deployment with microservices, APIs and Enterprise Service Bus architectures.
• Virtualization technologies by vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, Redhat, Citrix,Oracle, and Docker.
• Data architecture, transformation, and visualization.
• Understanding of the Microsoft BI Stack, including: SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, and Power BI.
• Experience with data lakes, HDFS, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Oracle platforms, Spark and advanced analytic tools.
• Proficient in automated file handling with ETL tools and orchestration.
• Data analysis procedures, data backup, recovery, security, and integrity controls.
• Network architecture with Cisco, Azure, AWS, and F5.
• Network access and traffic control with Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Akamai, Azure, AWS, and SDWAN.
• Monitoring with ITRS, Nagios, SolarWinds, Datadog, Big Panda, App Dynamics, and Dynatrace.
• Project management and tracking in platforms such as Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, and ServiceNow.
• Proficient designing complex architectural diagrams using Visio, ensuring clear communication.

Preferred Skills:

• Infrastructure technologies from VMware, Linux, Microsoft, HCI, and Docker.
• Configuration management with Ansible, Terraform, and Chef.
• Experience with SQL in IaaS/PaaS and private cloud platforms, as well as SSIS and SSAS.
• Experience with SAP, Infor, Workday, Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Data reporting and visualization using SSRS and Power BI.
• Network topologies, protocols, and standards.
• Container platforms and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Endpoint Management, software packaging, and distribution with SCCM, Intune, and SyxSense.
• Scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash/KSH, JavaScript, and YAML

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 21 years of age.
• Proof of authorization to work in the United States.
• Located in Mountain or Pacific time zones.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in technology preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in technical design, strategic planning, implementation, information security, and technology assessment.
• Familiar with Enterprise Architecture concepts, design principles, best practices, standards, and processes.
• Strong understanding of hospitality and gaming business processes and compliance constraints.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a multicultural, multinational environment with both technical and non-technical business stakeholders, as well as executive level management.
• Understanding of business processes and fundamental corporate finance, management, and accounting principles.
• Knowledge of secure coding best practices and security framework standards such as: NIST, COBIT, ISO.
• Experience architecting solutions compliant with regulations such as: PCI, GLBA, SOX, Basel III.
• Experience implementing controls for privacy legislation such as: HIPAA, COPPA, FCRA, GLB and GDPR.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CICD), DevOps, or SRE.
• Must be able to work varied shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English.

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