Enterprise Architect, Vantage Data Centers
Global
$125-135k
+ Bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Customizable enterprise data center solutions
Open for applications
Customizable enterprise data center solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$125-135k
+ Bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To design, build and operate resilient, sustainable digital infrastructure for the world’s leading technology companies with a relentless focus on customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience as an architect or engineer in any two technology domains: security, application, software development, infrastructure, or network
- Experience in leading multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
- Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
- Executive presentation and influence
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to multitask and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Problem-solving mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
What the job involves
- The Enterprise Architect plays a critical role in enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization
- The enterprise architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices
- Develop and communicate architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Manage exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level
- Review and/or analyze and develop architectural requirements as needed for the organization
- Approve modifications to the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs
- Advise on options, risks, costs, system impacts, and technology priorities
- Direct research and evaluation of emerging technologies, industry trends, and market advancements to ensure strategic alignment
- Collaborate with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology trade-offs influence strategy
- Consult with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
- Ensure the conceptual completeness of technical solutions
- Ensure recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment
- Partner with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
- Handle additional duties as assigned by Management
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
Our take
AI technology is scaling, demanding more powerful and expensive facilities to store the data of the companies that are spearheading this acceleration. Because AI tech demands higher-powered cooling requirements, extra effort must go into keeping these data centers carbon neutral, which is why Vantage Data Centers designs facilities that are efficient, scalable, and sustainable.
Such a rapidly growing market means the facilities and infrastructure supporting it must be flexible and suitable for expansion. Vantage keeps this in mind, designing scalability into its centers. It now operates 32 hyperscale campuses across the globe, serving several leading technology companies. In 2017, it was acquired by Digital Bridge Holdings, and has surpassed Unicorn status with a valuation of $15 billion.
With VC awarded at the start of 2024, Vantage is extending and accelerating its capabilities across North America and the EMEA regions. As cloud computing and AI companies grow at a breakneck pace, Vantage has established itself as the obvious data-storage choice for hyperscaling companies, which sets it up for great success in the future.
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2024
$6.4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2023
$1.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.6bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and AD&D
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance
- Participation in a 401k program that includes company match
Company values
- We are committed to providing world-class customer service
- Operational excellence is our foundation and way of life
- Without employee and client safety, nothing else matters
- Security, for both clients and employees, is a top priority—always
- We engineer to meet customer needs while maintaining cost effectiveness
- We innovate, iterate and automate in the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement
- We incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles across our business to create long-term value
- By valuing diversity and inclusivity, we collaborate to build better solutions
- Accountability to our customers and transparency in our metrics show proof of performance
- Honesty is the only policy: we communicate openly no matter the risk or reward
Company HQ
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO
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Leadership
Sureel Choksi
(CEO, not founder)Was previously on the Board of Directors at Vantage before being promoted to CEO in 2013. Alongside his work at Vantage, Choksi is on the Board for Scala Data Centers, Zayo Group and Strada Education Foundation.
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