Enterprise Network and Communications Architect

Are you an Enterprise Network and Communications Architect who is looking to join one of the top companies within the Energy and gas Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in IT and system design?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work ON-SITE with our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• This combined practical and strategic position involves establishing technical strategy, defining enterprise communication/network architectures, and leading solution implementations from a technology perspective.
• The position provides technical guidance and training to the implementation teams, serves as a technology and best practices evangelist, and ensures that implementations follow the finest implementation standards and principles.
• This position advises technical management and business areas on key architectural decisions regarding platforms and supporting technologies.
• This position produces technical architectures (documented by deliverables) that are scalable, maintainable, dependable, secure, and meet performance requirements.
• It represents the Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) organization across clients and works across the company to deliver technical solutions.
• This includes providing continuity on major solution decisions, communicating technology solution value across all company levels, and ensuring solutions are implemented according to the defined solution architecture and technical standards.
• Responsible for enterprise communicating / network architectural design and planning of complex interactions of IT systems.
• Develop enterprise networking architectural patterns and approaches, design solutions, and research new technologies and techniques.
• Create standards and roadmaps and develop recommendations for migrating to future standards.
• Responsible for the design, architecture, and automation designs of on-premise, wide area, and Cloud networking solutions. Design and architecture of a multi-site, multi-cloud network infrastructure.
• Partner with vendors to select appropriate technical solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop consensus, drive results, and execute projects on time and within budget.
• Manage several simultaneous initiatives from conception through implementation.
• Contribute to standards and design patterns.
• Deliver solutions tailored to internal business requirements.
• Articulate design rationale, flexibly adapts solutions, and iterate designs when needed.
• Provide third-level support and input as needed to teams, diagnosing reported issues and providing root cause analysis to management and the business teams.
• Work closely with Senior management, Architecture, Application managers, and IT operations teams.
• Enhances efficiency via automation when and wherever possible.
• Cross-trains other team members on projects and network technologies.
• Address security requirements across the enterprise by applying appropriate people, processes, and technology.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $15,800.00 - $150,600.00 / year.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week.

Length: Direct Placement.

Sound like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or information systems.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in past, present, and upcoming network technologies, standards, and best practices to properly plan and integrate solutions in the most effective way.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in IT and system design.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in problem analysis, structured analysis and design, statistical programming languages, and database query language (SQL and NO SQL based).
• Minimum of 8 years experience in Access and network management.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in cloud and data centers.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in Tech functional on the business side.

• Solid understanding of general IT application structures, the supporting components of the network, and the overall holistic IT functions, operations, security solutions, and general dataflows of an enterprise network.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to handle competing priorities.
• Understanding of common information architecture frameworks and information modeling methods.
• Familiarity with enterprise-level business intelligence and data warehousing platforms.
• Understanding of basic statistics, machine learning algorithms, multivariate calculus, and linear algebra.
• Experience as a data analyst or data scientist.
• In-depth experience designing and implementing enterprise information solutions.
• Experience with data visualization methods and design principles.
• Enterprise or Application Architecture certification (Open Group, CM-ISRI, ESAI, IEAD, ITAC, TOGAF).

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.