rackspace technology Hiring for Lead Integration Architect at Dubai Full Time

Job Description

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. Weve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey providing Fanatical Experience from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

Rackspace has been commissioned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to assure the build of a sovereign multi tenant private cloud that we have designed. Under contract Rackspace will fulfil 3 strategic functions, led by the Delivery Director, as part of a 3 year programme, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1. Design and Build Assurance Overseeing the plans, schedule and build of 20 vendors, individually deploying to install and configure their infrastructure, according to the schedule and standards laid down by Rackspace

2. CMP Development Designing, Building and releasing MVPs into service which allow firstly administration functions to be created and utilised, leveraging automation, and subsequently building in further automation and service controls

3. Strategic Advisory Against a designed TOM laid down by Rackspace, supporting the mobilisation of resources, executing a training strategy, and providing expertise to build out the cloud management office

Rackspace has a deep seated technical background, and is one of the few organisations that allows engineers to progress to the most senior organisational posts in the corporation. Our solutions engage service, migration factory, security and changes, amongst other departments and speciality skills to build a high quality infrastructure and a solution that enables sustainable and scalable control and administration. Over the last 2 decades Rackspace has applied its continuous improvement policies to deliver holistic, people, process and tech solutions.

Frequent travel (potentially relocation) to Saudi Arabia will be required.

Arabic language skills will be highly advantageous.

Job Responsibilities Planning, coordination, development, and supervision of all activities related to the integration of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions to meet the business requirements of the organization
Perform analysis and assessment of certain system structures to include Vendor designs, CMP integrations and Architecture
Evaluate tools, approaches and policies for compliance with best practice
Create data and workflow models to visualize the integrations
Provide guidance to develop and implement best practice integration solutions based on code/remediation and appropriate tooling, process and/or workarounds
Develop data strategies and data architecture documentation
It will be a core requirement that all solution approaches will be laid out, explained, controlled, governed and executed according to best practice standards and customised for pragmatic adoption based on a combination of Rackspace lessons learnt and constraints within the client environment.

Specifically the Integration Architect will: Maintain and control a holistic view of build standards and tooling
Perform gap analysis, assess remediation and solution opportunities and document outcomes
Establish document storage approaches to govern and control
Document solutions and demonstrate integration designs to the satisfaction of the client
Provide wide ranging expert support to tooling vendors, hardware vendors and application providers
Act as the integration and SPO Expertise to the Chief Architect

Products

Create and control the master list for gap analysis, remediation and solutions
Create and provide in a timely manner workflows, designs and approaches

Execution

Lead the engagement with the customer
Identify and manage all stakeholders
Manage and direct efforts within scope according to the technical and business priorities
Ensure the creation, deployment and efficient management and control of all vendor build details and adherence to build principles inserted into an appropriate CMDB and aligned to process for problem to resolution.

Changes

Commercially assess the viability of each change and negotiate and explain decisions made
Work with the Client executive to manage all and any out of scope requirements and new opportunities