Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure/Cloud

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania – in partnership with MassMutual in the United States – will help shape a culture of innovation and to create the digital products and technology solutions that help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. Positioning MassMutual for its next 20 million customers and remaining innovative in a digital-first world led to the creation of MassMutual Romania in 2020. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, MassMutual Romania was established to build an in-house team with expertise in application development and support, quality assurance and data science. For 170 years, MassMutual has put its customers at the heart of what it does by providing holistic financial solutions, guidance, and education on their terms. Its long-term strategy helps ensure that policyowners and their loved ones can rely on them to be there when they need them most. If this vision excites you, come join us and become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be one of the most important enablers to our success and you can be a part of it.

The Opportunity

Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions, and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual Romania, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection and plan for the future. We do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual. If this sounds like a fit, come join our team.

Reporting to:  Head Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure

Department name: Enterprise Architecture

Location: Romania (Bucharest or Cluj-Napoca)

Job Description

The vision for the MassMutual enterprise architecture team is to build an industry leading EA function that creates alignment between technology and business strategy by guiding the process of planning and designing capabilities to maximize the value of IT and enable the company to make high impact, long term decisions. This will be accomplished through architecture strategies, blueprints and road maps that standardize technology stacks and create engineering speed and agility through the innovative use of data science, data analytics, cloud and API’s.

Position Summary: Enterprise Architecture – Infrastructure/Cloud

The Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure/Cloud will be responsible for defining and maintaining an enterprise architecture for Infrastructure platforms. The infrastructure architecture will include platform architecture for private, public, and hybrid cloud implementations across multiple cloud service providers including MM Co-Located DC, AWS and Azure enabling both cloud-native and cloud migration application patterns that ensure consistent security, operations and deployment models through infrastructure templates, controls and automation. Additionally, the enterprise architect will help ensure the efficient and secure usage of Enterprise Infrastructure and Data Centers through capabilities for consumption management and policy controls.

This role will partner closely with security, SRE, engineering, operations, and infrastructure teams to define and implement architecture road maps as well as supporting solution architecture for development teams with infrastructure capabilities that align to enterprise road maps and strategies. The Enterprise Architect will also be responsible for evaluating and benchmarking new technologies, drafting technical standards, creating cloud architecture patterns and publishing architectural artifacts enabling MassMutual to make high impact, long term decisions. This is a critical strategic architecture role to help drive digital transformation and create a competitive advantage for the company

If this vision excites you, we are seeking an Enterprise Architect to become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be a part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be paramount, and you can be a part of this important work.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure platform reference architectures and patterns.
• Technical evaluations of Infrastructure technologies including cloud application services and tools.
• Specification and publication of standards for cloud platform usage and operations.
• Define Data Center architecture strategies and approaches to advance enterprise cloud initiatives.
• Partner with business and technical partners on Application migration strategies for Cloud.
• Partner with EA domain architects and technology stakeholders to define and implement capabilities and patterns for security, data and operations in the cloud.
• Provide recommendations on system options, risks, cost/benefit analysis, and impact on cross-domain systems, business strategy, goals and processes.
• Partner with extended enterprise architecture, information security, compliance, business, and IT support teams to communicate and collaborate on architecture strategies, standards, and direction.
• Partner with domain architects, SRE and solution architects to design and implement automation capabilities for cloud platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, security operations and audit. Technical evaluations and benchmarking of core infrastructure technologies including cloud providers, network architectures, and storage platforms.
• Specification and publication of standards around infrastructure configuration (network elements, servers, cloud environments) Thought leadership and active participation in conferences and research with strategic partners and academic institutions.
• Define the technical platform strategy for enterprise infrastructure initiatives, such as data center relocations, network architecture changes and upgrades, etc. Partner with technology leaders to monitor execution.
• Define cloud and network architecture strategies and approaches to advance enterprise initiatives.
• Provide recommendations on system options, risks, cost/benefit analysis, and impact on cross-domain systems, business strategy, goals and processes.
• Partner with other enterprise architecture, business, and IT support teams to communicate, and collaborate on architecture strategies, standards, and direction.
• Thought leadership and active participation in conferences and research with strategic partners and academic institutions.
• Define the technical platform strategy for enterprise Application migration initiatives.
• Partner with senior leaders to develop and maintain the Data Center strategy.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience working with infrastructure technologies (DNS, IP routing and switching, SDN, docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Linux, MSFT technologies)10+ years performing research and or large-scale system design, and benchmarking,
• Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities. Track record of designing architectural reference material.
• Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to technical teams.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field required (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred)

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