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Infrastructure Architect Jobs in Zürich (Kreis 11) – Switzerland at Constellium Deutschland GmbH
Title: Infrastructure Architect
Company: Constellium Deutschland GmbH
Location: Zürich (Kreis 11) – Switzerland
Category: IT/Tech, Business
Location: Zürich (Kreis 11)
Constellium is a global leader in aluminum manufacturing with 13’000 employees in 25 locations distributed over Europe, North America and Asia. Constellium serves the aerospace, transportation, automotive and the packaging market. In doing that, Constellium heavily depends on information technology which enables business support and production processes.
The position of the Infrastructure Architect is part of the Central IT Infrastructure Team and is reporting to the Director IT Infrastructure, who is part of the IT
Leadership
team reporting to the CIO. Constellium IT is a global organization with team members distributed over many sites, different countries and time zones.
The Infrastructure Architect is acting in his global role by collaborating with the other infrastructure teams, central IT teams or roles such as IT Security, Central Service Desk, Application and the IT teams located in our sites.
The Central IT Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, developing, improving and operating central IT infrastructure services which are provided to the Constellium locations, the end users, the application teams and also directly to the business. Central IT infrastructure covers Messaging & Desktop, Central IT Service Desk, Networking and Hosting.
The Infrastructure Architect is managing a team of 2 people.
Key Responsibilities
Designing infrastructure solutions
Designing cost efficient and fit to
purpose
infrastructure solutions that are aligned with the needs of the different stakeholders (business, sites, application teams, digital, infrastructure & security teams)
Systematically collecting, documenting and understanding stakeholders needs and translate them into IT infrastructure solutions
Drive technical and business discussions which are depending on IT infrastructure
Assist and participate in infrastructure and other IT projects
Aligning solutions with business goals and strategies
Define infrastructure standards where meaningful to ensure maximum cost efficiency, simplified operations and robust IT services
Ensure business and IT needs regarding IT infrastructure are captured and aligned with the relevant standards
Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, design standards, governance
Evaluate & test new technologies
Anticipate business needs help Constellium IT to be ready for them
Evaluate new and emerging technologies, services, tools, and cloud vendors for
innovative
new capabilities to guide business and technology decisions
Prepare IT infrastructure for future needs by collaborating closely with the different stakeholders
Leadership
competencies, technical skills requirement
Leadership
Previous team management experience is required
Strong team player with abilities to actively work with different teams in infrastructure, security, application and business
Abilities to collaborate effectively in a complex matrix organization
Strong technological
leadership
skills
Experience in proposing technology solutions and providing convincing business cases
Knowledge and understanding of industry needs, trends and technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural solutions
Technical
Strong skills in designing holistic infrastruct…
