Enterprise Technical Architect - IBM z/OS Storage

Companion Data Services•Columbia, SC

11d•Remote

About The Position

Companion Data Services is hiring an Enterprise Technical Architect to advance business technical solutions across the enterprise. The role provides technical direction for enterprise projects, applies deep technical knowledge to business-solution design, and guides technology roadmaps supporting infrastructure. It promotes innovation and transformation while ensuring technology and projects achieve desired business and technical outcomes. The architect influences strategic technology initiatives by evaluating emerging technologies, leading technical architecture development, and consulting with technical teams on skills needed to adopt public cloud services and hybrid-cloud solutions. The position works with cloud vendors to coordinate services hosted outside company data centers while meeting security, compliance, and audit requirements. It also leads cross-functional discussions to evaluate business needs and vendor solutions, builds relationships across organizational levels, develops roadmaps and technical papers with vendors and business stakeholders, and approves and manages technical roadmaps and project artifacts. This is a full-time work-at-home position. Occasional onsite meetings in Columbia, South Carolina, may be requested. Work-at-home status may change based on performance or business needs. The position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Nine years of related IT experience and two years in corporate planning or strategic development; the planning or development experience may be concurrent.
Alternatively, an associate degree plus two additional years of job-related experience for a total of 11 years of required work experience, or 13 total years of required work experience.
Technical, industry, and business relationships that support achieving business goals through technology.
Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
Ability to build and maintain trusted advisory relationships with leaders and technical staff.
Open and honest communication with colleagues.
Strong writing skills for analysis work products, white papers, and responses to organizational technology queries.

Nice To Haves

Experience with IBM z/OS storage environments.
Experience creating storage management utilization reports.
Experience initializing and configuring DASD devices.
Experience with DFSMSdss full-volume and logical-dataset dump and restore.
Experience coding SMS ACS routines.
Experience with ISMF and HSM configuration and administration.
Experience with SMS storage group utilization.
Experience with RMM configuration and administration.
Working knowledge of Dino Software T-REX and UDM software products.
Working knowledge of Luminex Mainframe Virtual Tape (MVT), storage pools, the LSCRUP process, and the Luminex GUI.
Exposure to IBM TDMF for z/OS.
Working knowledge of Dell EMC PowerMax and SRDF replication.
Experience with zEDC exploitation.
Master's degree.
Eleven years of related IT experience and four years in corporate planning or strategic development; the planning or development experience may be concurrent.

Responsibilities

Influence strategic technology initiatives by consulting on emerging technologies and solutions.
Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design needed to develop enterprise technical architecture.
Consult with technical resources to identify skills needed to adopt public cloud services and hybrid-cloud solutions.
Research and evaluate industry information to ensure technology strategies align with business needs and reflect emerging technologies.
Learn about and communicate emerging technologies through various methods.
Liaise with cloud vendors to coordinate management of externally hosted services and meet security, compliance, and audit requirements.
Lead and participate in cross-functional discussions to understand business needs, assess vendor solutions, and determine technical suitability.
Build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across organizational levels.
Work with vendors and business and information-systems stakeholders to develop roadmaps and white or position papers that align IT services with changing business needs.
Approve and manage technical roadmaps and project-level artifacts.
Contribute to changes in technical architectural standards in collaboration with the IT organization and lines of business.