Pivotal Enterprise Architect

Job Location: FRANKFURT, Germany

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 3rdparty 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: 120893BR

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