Infrastructure Solutions Architect Vice President

The Infrastructure Solution Architect is a seasoned professional role, who applies in-depth IT knowledge and experience towards gathering and analyzing business / application requirements in support of Citi financial services.

• Supporting CTI businesses as a trusted advisor for all solution tasks.
• Architect and design target-state solutions for migrating traditional and stateful applications to container platforms like OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Develop and enforce best practices and reference architectures for deploying, securing, and managing stateful workloads on container orchestration platforms.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to create seamless CI/CD pipelines for containerized database deployments and updates.
• Engage in routine discussions with stakeholders (DBA, SA, Build, Business) regarding App/Business requirements.
• Collaborate with application architects, developers, DevOps, and data teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
• Ability to take ALL elements of a solution design and capture in both a narrative and diagram (Visio) form in such a way that stakeholders can understand.
• Must grasp the technical aspects of an applications RTO / RPO when designing an infrastructure solution.
• Evaluate new database technologies, tools, and services to continuously improve data architecture.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all database-related technologies and integration patterns.
• Define and enforce database security, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance strategies.
• Mentor and guide junior architects and engineers in best practices around data architecture and governance.
• Support the organization’s cloud transformation initiatives with a strong understanding of cloud-native and managed database services (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.).
• Drive innovation and performance optimization initiatives across all database platforms.

• Understanding how application requirements determine infrastructure type and size, including High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities.
• Proven, hands-on experience architecting and leading the migration of complex, enterprise applications to container platforms such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of container-native storage (CSI), networking, and security principles required for running mission-critical stateful workloads in production.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Helm, Kustomize, Ansible) within a Kubernetes/OpenShift ecosystem.
• Experience as a Systems Admin or Systems Engineer is preferred.
• Experience in root-cause analysis techniques in a highly complex Data Center environment.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Ability to develop working relationships, manage multiple projects with different priorities.
• Team player with willingness to learn the latest technology, while taking initiative to master new tasks quickly.
• Public Cloud Certifications is a plus.
• Demonstrated expertise in Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB – with practical experience in high-volume, mission-critical environments.
• Hands-on experience designing data replication, partitioning, sharding, indexing strategies, and stored procedures.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, ETL processes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms.
• Solid understanding of NoSQL technologies, distributed systems, and microservices-based architectures.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managed database services.

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages
• planned time off (vacation)
• unplanned time off (sick leave)
• paid holidays

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