Principal Architect

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The Principal Architect works as part of the Technology Strategy department to drive standard definition and evolvement of core technologies and practices with the different subject matter experts.

The Principal Architect works as part of the Technology department to drive standard definition and evolvement of core technologies and practices. We actively engage in developing sophisticated automations, introducing innovative features, and assuming a pivotal role from a technical perspective in the certification process for new products within the company.

Working at NTT

Key Responsibilities

• Research, define and evolve best practices for our core strategic technology platforms
• Collaborate on creation of Blueprints & Reference Architectures
• Work closely with Delivery teams retrofitting new standards to existing clients
• Participate for the standardization of processes and technical solutions
• Manage and provision resources through automation so good knowledge of devops, testing and automation tools is required.
• Design, implement and maintain sophisticated and highly-reliable tooling to support thousands of servers around the globe, providing seamless integrations of multiple systems and technologies
• Key member of the automation group to deliver automation and innovation initiatives.
  
  

Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

Technical Skills:

• Strong automation skills including proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language and use of source code management technologies, preferably git.
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience in connection to the technologies used to implement cloud solutions. Deep knowledge of the following technologies is a must:
  
  

Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) – ideally with an active technical certification from at least one provider

Cloud native architectures (including serverless and container orchestration technologies, preferably Kubernetes)

Configuration management and automation tooling – ideally Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, Packer

Modern application & infrastructure security – including micro-segmentation, WAF, SAST, DAST

Cloud, NAS and SAN storage technologies

Load Balancing cloud/hardware/software – including API gateway technologies (routing, geo distribution, caching, rate limiting, authentication, authorization)

Windows and Linux operating systems

• Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery approaches and related technologies (replication of storage, global load balancing, database replication and recovery etc.) will be a plus
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle tooling and methodologies – including but not limited to git, gitlab, pipelines, Azure DevOps, Jira, continuous integration and delivery strategies (CI/CD), application release automation tooling and approaches (blue/green, canary, feature flags) etc.
• Knowledge of a range of systems and applications (web servers, application servers, databases, queuing, event streaming, analytics etc.) will be a plus
• Experience and ability to carry out troubleshooting tasks.
• Experience in direct client management, both by telephone and in person.
  
  

Education:

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent preferred.
• Deep knowledge of the technologies used in application and cloud solutions (networks, security, solution architecture, databases, operating systems cloud platforms, container technologies – including container orchestration, automation tools, source code management, configuration management systems etc.).
  
  

Experience:

• Minimum experience of 10 years in design and implementation at a technical level of complex cloud solutions, including in a client facing role.
  
  

Personal Skills:

• Excellent learning ability and objective-oriented
• Excellent collaboration and mentoring skills - ability to influence and steer diverse cross functional teams
• Good organization skills and attention to detail
• Good task coordination, organization and prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills – including being able to present confidently to audiences with diverse technical abilities, including in a public setting
• Teamwork
• Ability to work under pressure and to get on at all levels
• Client oriented
• Empathy
  
  

Language skills:

• Written and spoken English (fluent / native) - required
  
  

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