Maximo COE – Application/Solutions Architect
About The Position
An Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the Maximo Center of Excellence (COE) provides technical leadership and strategic direction for enterprise platform technologies supporting IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), OpenShift, Oracle, and related services. This role is responsible for defining platform architecture, technology standards, modernization roadmaps, environment strategy, resiliency patterns, and operational design principles that ensure scalable, secure, supportable, and resilient enterprise services. Working closely with the Platform Support Supervisor, fellow architects, development teams, infrastructure organizations, cybersecurity teams, and strategic vendors, the architect drives long-term platform evolution while enabling operational excellence through automation, observability, documentation, and modern infrastructure practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in supporting enterprise application platforms, infrastructure architecture, platform architecture, or senior technical leadership roles
- Minimum of 6 years of supporting highly available applications in a 24/7 production setting, including application and system monitoring and troubleshooting
- Experience with IBM Maximo (Maximo 7.x and MAS 9.x)
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift and containerized application platforms
- Experience with Oracle databases and Exadata environments
- Experience with Linux and Windows enterprise server platforms
- Experience with data center migrations, cloud transitions, and infrastructure modernization programs
- Experience supporting cybersecurity remediation and audit activities
- Familiarity with Jira, Remedy, Change Management, and Agile ways of working
Nice To Haves
- IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) and/or Red Hat OpenShift professional certifications
- Third party MAS add-ons: EZMaxMobile (Naviam), CiM Visual Planner, TRM Rules Manager, MaxLS
- Exposure to AI-enabled technologies
- Experience incorporating AI into day-to-day activities
Responsibilities
- Partner with one peer Infrastructure Solution Architect and a team of Infrastructure Analysts
- Evaluate emerging AI-enabled capabilities and identify opportunities to automate platform administration, diagnostics, and operational processes.
- Establish enterprise architecture standards and design patterns, develop technical roadmaps, define environment strategies, and lead architectural reviews as the Maximo COE moves from Maximo 7.6 to a containerized OpenShift platform under IBM MAS 9.x.
- Lead infrastructure planning and execution for platform upgrades, version management, and vendor compatibility. Plan and execute Disaster Recovery exercises to ensure strategies support business continuity requirements.
- Provide senior-level technical leadership for major production support issues, facilitate platform outage coordination, and drive proactive monitoring and service reliability improvements.
- Build strong partnerships across multiple technical disciplines to serve as a senior technical counterpart to vendors, internal support organizations, and project managers.
Benefits
- competitive base salary
- annual incentive awards for eligible employees
- health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
- additional compensation, such as an incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
