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Iron Mountain Director, Operations Platform Architecture in Trenton, New Jersey
At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain.
We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.
Are you curious about being part of our growth story while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.
Iron Mountain seeks a Platform Architect Lead to have deep architecture experience with a specific platform along with experience and knowledge with many of the latest technologies in that domain. The Platform Architect is tasked with overseeing the design, development and implementation of robust, scalable and secure platform solutions that align with business objectives while
establishing a strong technical foundation in the platform. The Platform Architect guides and collaborates closely with cross functional teams to define, maintain and modernize the platform architecture and ensures alignment with enterprise goals and drives innovation. This role will also be responsible for continuously improving the capabilities using data-driven methods, enforcing platform standards, ensuring compliance with policy where required and enabling a rich developer and user experience.
This position will be a key change agent, strategic thinker and technical expert who can build a team to focus on results while also building long term strategic plans to evolve the technology platform solutions to position the company for strategic growth. This leader will need to balance strategic vision with hands-on leadership and also bring energy and enthusiasm by leading by example to inspire cultural change and demonstrate what “art of the possible” means in practice.
Role and Responsibilities
Platform Design and Development
Develop and evolve a platform strategy, aligned to and prioritized by business objectives
Develop and communicate measurements of platform progress and business impact
Translate business requirements into technical requirements that technical team members include in the project design and delivery
Drive the overall technical design and end-to-end platform design for assigned initiatives
Support application teams as they design and implement solutions which center on the consumption of the platform
Influence/coach modern evolutionary platform architecture principles and practices
Review and identify gaps in architecture and assess and define remediation efforts or mitigation options
Document and share platform technical best practices and insights
Partner with enterprise and technology architects to identify and enable the top strategic technologies/platforms that will help shape the organization’s technology footprint to support cross-enterprise business requirements
Designs reference and platform architectures based on specific business constraints, requirements and dependencies
Drives cross-domain initiatives that are supported by end-to-end design, applies digital standards to project platform architecture, and drives technical strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions
Leadership
Drives the recruitment, hiring, training, motivating and retaining of team members
Coaches and provides technical guidance and mentorship to the teams to improve collaboration and outcomes
Encourages a culture of team-driven decision making and commitment
Keeps abreast of industry trends through benchmarking, participation in professional associations, etc. in order to lead strategic business direction of the department
Critical Competencies
Strong understanding of platform architecture principles and design patterns
Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable and high-performance platforms
Expertise in relevant programming languages and technologies
Deep knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Experience with Agile development methodologies
High level working knowledge of multiple complex software and hardware platforms including network architectures
Ability to work in a fast paced, high tech environment juggling multiple priorities while meeting deadlines
People Leadership: - Strong people manager with the ability to manage teams and develop talent at various levels and locations; develop a team that is highly competent, business-minded, growth-oriented, diverse and inclusive, and motivated
The Ideal Candidate Characteristics & Credentials
At least 15+ years of experience
Bachelor's degree preferred in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Information Security or related field or equivalent experience
Experience working across all levels of a highly matrixed global organization
Strong sense of urgency and results orientation
Ability to quickly develop domain expertise and manage change
Exceptional written and oral communication skills
Ability to work in a team environment and maintain professionalism and integrity
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Reasonably expected salary range: $183,200.00 - $244,200.00
Category: Information Technology
Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.
Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.
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Requisition: J0078908