Job Title: Sr Principal Architect, IT Resiliency Office Duration: 3 Months with possibility of extension Location: Chicago, IL 3 days onsite per week
Project Overview / Contractor’s Role: The client is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Architect with a strong focus on resiliency to scale the posture across technologies. The Sr Principal Architect position, reporting into the IT Resiliency Office, is a strategic role geared towards liaising with Business Units, Product Teams, Technology Leaders, and Programs to both promote and ensure overall system resiliency. This role will be accountable for driving a resilient architecture capable of tolerating and adapting to challenges. You will influence the client's culture with driving resiliency to lead to uninterrupted services.
This role will be responsible for a number of key functions that both support and drive improvements to the resiliency of client's Resiliency.
Experience Level: 3
Qualifications (must haves): Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. 15+ years in architecture and systems engineering with a focus on resiliency, demonstrating leadership in the creation and maintenance of robust, large-scale systems. 5+ years as a Team lead or a hands on Technical Manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion A track record of successfully architecting and deploying enterprise-level solutions that prioritize system uptime and data integrity across various operational scenarios. Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems that ensure high availability, support massive transaction volumes, and facilitate seamless disaster recovery processes. Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development. Strong dedication to customer needs, with excellent communication and the ability to build lasting relationships, alongside the capability to articulate complex resilience strategies in a clear and impactful manner. Deep insight into the complexities of multi-AZ and multi-Region cloud platforms, with a keen understanding of how these impact system resilience and disaster recovery planning. Proven experience in the ongoing management of mission-critical systems that require constant uptime, including out-of-hours support and rapid response to incidents. Knowledgeable in evaluating and deciding on trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, especially in the context of system failures and recovery strategies. Well-versed in various cloud service models such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with hands-on experience in designing resilient services on leading public cloud platforms. Proficient in Chaos Engineering principles and practices, with experience in designing and conducting experiments to validate the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions. Skilled in implementing observability solutions that provide real-time insights into the performance and health of systems, aiding in proactive issue detection and resolution. Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.
Tasks & Responsibilities: End-to-End Architecture Leadership: Oversee the design and implementation of resilient architectures across the technology domains. Cloud and On-Premises Infrastructure Expertise: Design and review resilient solutions in both cloud-based and on-premises environments. Chaos Engineering Infrastructure Initiatives: Lead chaos engineering efforts to proactively identify and mitigate potential system weaknesses. Standards for Monitoring and Alerting: Collaborate with Teams to evolve existing standards for system monitoring and alerting to ensure rapid detection and response. Resiliency Architecture Reviews: Represent the IT Resiliency Office during the Architectural Review Board. Enterprise-wide Collaboration and stakeholder management: Collaborate with various teams across the organization to align and prioritize resiliency and recovery efforts. Incident Response and Recovery: Integrate with post mortem process, from a major incident, to identify areas of opportunity for enhancing resiliency. Development: Evangelize standards and practices among the Technology organization to enrich our resiliency posture. Reporting and Documentation: Develop standardized regular reporting on resilience activities, risks, and improvements to the Leadership team. Third Party Hosted Solutions: Develop a framework for continuous assessment of our 3rd party hosted solutions and create architectural integration point artifacts.
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Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $80.00/hr.
