IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant

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Why Kyndryl
Our world has never been more alive with opportunities and, at Kyndryl, we’re ready to seize them. We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl is at the heart of progress — dedicated to helping companies and people grow strong. Our people are actively discovering, co-creating, and strengthening. We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers. At Kyndryl, we want you to keep growing, and we’ll provide plenty of opportunities to make that happen.

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Your Role And Responsibilities
As an IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant, you will support Kyndryl’s consistent growth by bringing to the practice your enterprise technology resiliency knowledge and experience focused on technology architectural design consulting all built from your experience from your “hands-on” project execution. Picture yourself working in a highly motivated, highly successful global resiliency consulting practice team. If you’re ready to bring your enterprise technical architectural insights and your experience to lead the interpretations and translation of future state recommendations into a comprehensive integrated enterprise high-level technology design for areas such as Resiliency Consulting, Business Continuity Consulting, Technology DR Consulting and Cyber Threat Impact Analyses, they we are ready to offer you a best in class career development.

Reporting to a Sr. Manager and Practice Lead and being a resiliency technical architectural member of the global resiliency team, the IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant will create the detailed enterprise technology architectural designs and work products to facilitate the build and implementation of a resilience strategy solution. You will develop the design specifications for selected strategy, including facilities, hardware, software, network, staffing, governance and management requirements to include costing and finally, design the implementation plan specifically for the desired solution.

The IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant will contribute to the development and delivery of consulting solutions based on first-hand recent experiences. S/he will understand the enterprise technical design challenges faced by clients, the technology, the alternatives, and the remedy approach to best fit the resiliency architectural design requirements. In executing a consulting engagement, you will perform resiliency consulting technical architectural duties for :

• Resiliency Strategy and Vision for the “always on” model
• Organization resiliency for keeping pace with organization changes
• Process resiliency for orchestration and business process availability
• Application resiliency for the “active-active” uptime of systems
• Data resiliency for the protection and availability of corporate data
• IT Infra resiliency for recovery, BC, DR, HA and
• Facility resiliency for prime and alternative work areas.
  
  

Your Role and Responsibilities

The IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant you will support IBM’s consistent growth plan by bringing in your experience and expertise in IT Management Consulting and specifically in the enterprise technology architecture for Resiliency, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery areas.

The IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant, as a subject matter expert, you will develop multiple conceptual design solutions that link business and IT objectives with estimated costs, implementation effort, and maintenance steps to allow the customer to choose the best comprehensive enterprise resilience strategy. Recommend a cost-effective option that balances risk mitigation and cost as it integrates continuity, availability, security, and recovery competencies into one resilience strategy.

The IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant will independently or as part of a consulting team, perform the consulting solution, create the consulting resiliency deliverables, and achieve the project outcomes while communicating the project success resulting in high client satisfaction.

The IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant will support and collaborate with the practice lead resiliency consultants to:

• Perform a risk and vulnerability assessments
• Perform business impact analysis
• Perform recoverability assessments
• Perform Availability Assessment
  
  

Finally, the IT Management Resiliency Enterprise Architect Consultant will be perceived as the trusted advisor and brand expert for enterprise resiliency architecture services within the IBM Canadian, Americas and global Resiliency consulting practices. This requires your continued skill and expertise proactive growth to keep pace with resiliency principles, technologies, and evolving best practices.

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Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 7+ years of progressive post-graduate IT and resiliency architecture consulting experience
• Consulting fundamentals skills
• Extensive experience and knowledge with resiliency related issues, impacts, trends and emerging practices to address the 8-resiliency implementation and orchestration topics (Strategy/Vision, Organization, Process, Applications, Data, Infra and Facilities)
• Applied Linux, Unix, midrange, database, Wintel & VM detail resiliency design architecting skills
• Applied Network resiliency design architecting skills
• Applied Cloud resiliency design architecting skills
• Applied Cyber Security resiliency design architecting skills
• Applied ability to validate your design architecture using prototype or automate recovery evaluation from a test DR/Cyber event
• Applied Experience in architecting and supporting Disaster Recovery simulations
• Ability to articulate and incorporate key technologies’ impact on architectural designs for security, availability, cost, capacity, transformation, risk, business enablement and transformation objectives
• Ability to evaluate risk/merit to make recommendations on available and speculative information
• Bilingual (English & French)
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Resiliency experience with architecting a QRadar suite build design
• Resiliency experience with architecting a Resiliency Orchestration suite
• Experience in Enterprise Automation strategies and principles to aid in testing and simulation events
• Experience and success supporting business development and opportunity closure for complex, multi-month resiliency planning and execution programs
• Experience and success performing in a consulting delivery oversight role, providing leadership and direction in areas such as program start-up and governance, executive communications, and problem resolution
  
  

Required Education
Associate’s Degree/College Diploma

Preferred Education
Bachelor’s Degree

Eligibility Requirements
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

Country/Region
Canada

State / Province
MULTIPLE

City / Township / Village
MULTIPLE CITIES

City / Township / Village 1
CA_QC_MONTREAL

City / Township / Village 2
CA_QC_SAINTE-FOY

Being You @ Kyndryl
Kyndryl is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Kyndryl is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Other Things To Know
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Primary Job Category
Consultant

Role ( Job Role )
IT Management Consultant

Employment Type
Full-Time

Contract type
Regular

Position Type
Professional

Travel Required
Up to 40% or 2 days a week (home on weekends- based on project requirements)

Company
(Y009) Kyndryl Canada Limited

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No