OverviewIT Solution Architect Italy role at Thales. This position is part of the Network & Security squad within the Enterprise Architecture department and involves designing and building projects to guarantee the global consistency of the enterprise IT technical architecture.Mission: The Technical Solution Architect designs solutions that satisfy business needs while assessing impacts on current systems architecture and ensuring compliance with IT standards, norms and rules. This role focuses on architectures that improve the organization’s network and infrastructure and support upcoming business and IT transformations.ResponsibilitiesGuarantee consistency of technical architecture and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture methodology, design principles, IT standards and normsPromote reuse of architecture components and patterns, favoring cost-efficient and sustainable designsAdvocate technical design choices to ensure coherence across Thales Alenia Space countriesContribute to knowledge capitalization and sharing on the Information System through modeling, documentation, communications, trainingsPropose updates to the architecture principles and rules repositoryParticipate actively in architecture governance from demand to deliveryAdvise on technical architectures and solutionsDesign One-TAS technical architectures in response to business projects or architecture change requestsAnalyze technical impacts, ensuring coherence with existing architecture across countries (As-Is & To-Be)Propose designs respecting contextual constraints (priority, time, resources, organization & data)Inform stakeholders about issues with current technical solutionsCollaborate with IT & Security teams to ensure performance, adaptability and interoperability objectivesFacilitate architecture design, risk assessment, and security validation processes and document decisionsSupport and verify during implementation and rollout before productionInnovationResearch current and emerging technologies related to agreed management areasIdentify opportunities/use-cases for sustainable benefits or addressing recurrent issuesParticipate in proofs of conceptTechnical SkillsAs a member of the Solution Architecture squad, the IT Solution Architect is involved in the following technical domains:Strong skills in Infrastructure domain (Storage, Backup, Data management, Virtualization, and security constraints)Storage: DAS / NAS / SAN / HCI / SDS; Mass Storage Units; Data storage structuration; Block Storage SAN; Deduplication; HCI / SDS Storage; Object Storage (S3/S3+)Backup / DRP: Physical/Virtual/End-user PC backup infrastructure, data archiving, DRP with RTO/DLO considerations, and related vendor skillsServers & Platforms: Dell/EMC / HPE platforms; Network and SAN interfaces; Legacy servers architecture and sizing; HCI virtualization (Nutanix / VSAN) sizing; Legacy Virtualization ESXiVirtualization: VMware full stack (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize)BigData Infrastructure: Docker / Kubernetes; network overlays; PV/PVC storage; Rancher / Ansible / Terraform / Packer; Elastic Search / InfluxDB; backup and recovery for metadata and dataDatacenter Architecture and Servitudes: Energy/thermal constraints; electrical power balancing; data room architectureDesirable architecture & technology certificationsTOGAFVMware Certified Professional/Advanced Professional (including VCP-NV, VCP-DCV, VCP-CMA, VCP-Security)Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect ExpertGoogle Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Professional Cloud ArchitectAWS Certified Solutions Architect – ProfessionalCisco CCNP EnterpriseLanguagesItalianEnglishFrench [Nice to have]Note: Abilities to write IT documents and to attend/manage meetings in Italian and/or English; architecture studies in English.ExperienceProven experience as a Senior Architect (minimum 5 years)At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. This description reflects the role and its responsibilities within the organization.
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