I.T. Data Architect (1st shift)

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Location: Onsite in St. Petersburg, FL (1st shift)

JOB SUMMARYProvides technical leadership and is responsible for determining the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation approaches for the company’s application systems, infrastructure and/or network-based cloud product systems. Creates, evaluates and implements plans and design proposals for high impact IT solutions and their use involving leading edge technologies and methods considering key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations and criticality. This is an expert-level role requiring independent action to establish methods and procedures on new and/or special assignments.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESIT Architect

Know and understand Jabil business strategy

Know and understand Jabil IT strategy & objectives

Define the overall solution architecture consistent with Jabil’s methodology

Be responsible for the technical solution by providing leadership for the customer, project manager, domain architects, domain specialists and application engineers to advance and deliver solutions

Consult and Inform Enterprise Architects and Senior IT Architects to design and deliver solutions

Earn trust of clients and management

Assess merits of alternative technical approaches and gain consensus for best approach

Learn, follow, promote, and improve recognized methodologies to design and deliver solutions

Ensure that the non-functional requirements are satisfied including, but not limited to, security, disaster recovery, availability, and performance

Researches technology and industry trends to hone both personal and Jabil’s competitive edge

Through modeling or prototyping, validate solution prior to full implementation

Develop expertise in one of the following disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Application Architecture, Technology Infrastructure Architecture

Mentor IT professionals

Management Practices

Develop project plans and influence project organization

Apply recognized system sizing methodology

Vet change(s) with respect to scope, schedule, cost, risk, etc.

Cross train staff to reduce delivery risk

Define processes & methods necessary to support delivery/deployment

Define management tools to support production environment

Continuous Improvement

Utilize Lean Six Sigma or other methods to identify & provide guidance on organizational improvement opportunities

Perform root cause analysis and remediation actions

Contribute to Jabil IP though development and submission of patents

Policy & Procedures

Comply with IT policy, procedure, and process

Adhere to all safety and health rules and regulations associated with this position and as directed by supervisor

Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy

Training & Development

Define technical job content & qualifications of key roles required to support technical infrastructure

Work closely with management to assess and aid the development of staff skill sets

Assist management to assess and help resolve staffing knowledge gaps

Communication

Publish and present to customers, IT leaders and business executives

Engage with vendors and third parties as needed

Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style

Ask questions; encourage input from staff

Develop peer relationships with Senior IT Architects

MANAGEMENT & SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Typically reports to management.

The purpose of this role is not primarily managerial, and the job is typically NOT directly responsible for managing employees (e.g., hiring/termination and/or pay decisions, performance management).

JOB QUALIFICATIONSKNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Understanding of all architectural components and their interrelationships

Knowledge of Software Engineering and Architectural Principles and methods

Solid presentation and written communication skills

Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations

Team lead experience in application development

Knowledge and experience of one or more languages e.g., Java, C#, etc.

Knowledge and experience with server-side technologies

Knowledge and experience with client-side technologies e.g., Node, Angular

Knowledge and experience working in an Agile methodology

Knowledge of SOA, including REST, SOAP, API Management, and other integration patterns e.g. ESB, EIP, etc.

Knowledge of relational databases and SQL

Knowledge of UML or ArchiMate

Knowledge of cloud technologies

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree required

Post-graduate degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems expected

10+ or more years of IT implementation experience Or, equivalent combination of education, training, or experience

Minimum 4 years of working experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a minimum of 4 implementations (preferred in Enterprise scale environments)

Minimum 5 years of working experience as an Enterprise or Technical Architect

Experience with complex, cross-cutting design and delivery of AWS Data Architectures that could span the areas of Application & Integration Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Development Architecture, Operations Architecture, Security Architecture.

Experience in designing and building cloud native data solutions that could cover container services, serverless architectures, high availability and fault-tolerant implementations, database services, data integration & big data processing and storage concepts

Ability to work with multiple project teams simultaneously

Experience in Agile DevOps delivery and everything-as-code

Experience with DataOps for lean data processes.

Experience in Decoupled Architecture.

Experience with Microservice Architecture.

Strategic thinking and getting hands on helping development teams implement technical solutions

Ability to articulate data integration patterns and strategies, associated data pipeline design trade-offs, and methods for tracking data lineage

Work with other architects to perform overall architecture design, performance tuning/cost management, and implementation of Big Data datalake solution with AWS cloud environments

Expert understanding in the native AWS stack like s3, glue, Lake Formation, Hudi, MWAA (Managed Workflow Apache Airflow) , Sagemaker, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM.

Understanding of Cloud Datawarehouses: Snowflake and Redshift.

Experience with Data Integration Tools: Talend, Informatica.

Good understanding of the capabilities of a Modern Data Platform.

Good presentation and communications skills in written and spoken English.

Preferred Certifications:

Open CA Level 1: Certified

TOGAF 9 Foundation

ArchiMate 3 Foundation

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