Pivotal Enterprise Architect

Job Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Description

A Pivotal Enterprise Architect (PEA) takes our customer's
business, applications, and big data strategies and architects IT
infrastructure to support those strategies.
Pivotal provides a next generation platform that completely transforms
the way enterprises deploy, develop and manage the applications they create,
both internally and externally, as well as the data that these applications consume
and create. Because of the
transformational nature of Pivotal’s technologies, it is entirely probable that
a PEA will need to integrate with, augment, replace, and enhance many
competitive and complementary 3^rd party commercial and open source
products already in production or being evaluated by our customers. The breath of experience of a PEA will be
extremely important for success.

Communication is a key skill; self-confidence is a must. PEAs have to talk to both technical
developers and business managers. They
need to be able to stand up in a meeting and tell the most senior person in the
room unwelcome news, like when a project won't make its deadline. PEAs also need to demonstrate they're both
experienced with and knowledgeable on the cutting edge of both enterprise and
open source software.

PEAs links the
business mission, strategy, and processes of an organization to its IT
strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that
show how the current and future needs of an organization will be met in an
efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner. They operate across organizational and
computing "silos" to drive common approaches and expose information
assets and processes across the enterprise. Their goal is to deliver an architecture that
supports the most efficient and secure IT environment meeting a company's
business needs.

Responsibilities

• Alignment
  of customer’s IT strategy and planning with customer’s business goals with Pivotal’s software stack.
• Long-term
  strategic responsibility for the customer’s IT architecture, as it relates in
  some part, to Pivotal’s software stack.
• Promotion
  of Pivotal software infrastructure, applications, and products to reduce costs
  and improve information flows. Ensure
  that other projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from the core
  business and IT strategies.
• Present
  Pivotal product use cases and benefits to stake holders, implementers, and
  competing groups. Present customer use
  cases and product needs internally to Product Engineering/Management to insure
  we are aligning Pivotal product strategy with the needs of our customers.
• Work with
  Pivotal Field Engineering and Customer Success to provide a consensus based
  enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with the
  customer’s ever changing business needs.
• Direct or
  indirect involvement in the development of policies, standards and guidelines
  that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information
  Technology (both Pivotal software as well as others) within the customer’s enterprise.
• Build customer
  knowledge and skills in Pivotal areas of expertise.
• Supplement
  product with example and reusable code that customers can apply to their
  environments

Skills and knowledge

• Systems
  Thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big picture
  thinking)
• Cross
  Vertical Expertise – subject matter expertise in financial, internet, retail,
  government/federal, telecom, etc. Any or
  all of the above.
• Interpersonal
  and leadership skills - collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills
• Communication
  skills, both written and spoken
• Ability
  to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may
  understand
• Knowledge
  of IT governance and operations
• Comprehensive
  knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• Project
  and program management planning and organizational skills
• Knowledge
  of financial modeling as it pertains to IT investment
• Customer
  service orientation
• Time
  management and prioritization
• Strong hands-on
  development skills, ideally in Java
  – including programming, testing, profiling, and operational deployment experience
• Ability
  to design, model, implement, and test high performance software for mission
  critical applications
• Understanding
  of distributed computing concepts and networking principles
• Prior
  experience with MPP Database technologies (Greenplum Database, Netezza,
  Teradata, Paraccel, or Asterdata, etc.)
• Prior
  knowledge of Java frameworks and libraries (Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, JDBC, JMS,
  JMX, etc.)
• Prior
  knowledge of in-memory data grids (GemFire, Coherence, Terracotta, Gigaspaces,
  etc)
• Knowledge
  and conversant in the pros and cons of PaaS, SaaS, IaaS and how they differ
  from more traditional enterprise deployments.

Job ID: 120686BR

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