Automation Architect Job Description
Automation architect
provides consulting Services related to discovering and documenting the current state of client’s IT environment including data center/campus/branch networks, capabilities within the networks, and tools available to manage those capabilities.
Automation Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Development experience with Node.js, Python, Ruby, or other language
May manage a virtual, geographically distributed team of up to 5 RPA architects
Ensures optimal performance of team members
Serves as an escalation point in case of performance issues
Ensures minimal attrition maintaining high job satisfaction and meeting team members’ career objectives
Maintains open, transparent and friendly team atmosphere
Works with Operations Solution Architect to create compelling Business Case including savings implementation and run costs estimate
Perform test automation assessments and propose most suitable test automation strategies (incl
Based on industry trends, modern techniques and tools maintain and develop training roadmap and artifacts for wide spectrum of technologies (mobile, web, Oracle, big data)
Automate the mechanisms for pulling together the latest releases of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo with usable solution demo data
Automation Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Automation Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, CSM, TOGAF, TQL, AE2,TDS, AE1, AS2, AS1, TOSCA, ISTQB
Education for Automation Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the automation architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Information Systems, Business, Education, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Technology
Skills for Automation Architect
Desired skills for automation architect include:
Java
Core networks
TCP/IP protocols and Telecom environment: mobile networks in general different technological areas like RAN
TX
VAS
Industry leading automation products capabilities and technical requirements
MS Excel
Related disciplines
Python
BMC Remedy
Desired experience for automation architect includes:
Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture and principles
Amazon Web Services / Azure or other Public Cloud IaaS experience
Experience defining and managing Windows / Linux / Network / Storage and VMware security
Requires a Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Experience in solutions architecture of complex systems
Ten or more years’ experience working in enterprise information systems, preferably in the Financial Services vertical
Automation Architect Examples
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Automation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of automation architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for automation architect
- Actively commit changes to Atlassians demo git repository
- Create a simple sales friendly self-service automated demo environment for all customer facing organizations
- Partner with Business Development teams on extending the solution demo with 3rd party integrations
- Contribute content to technical solution guides
- Be a thought leader with customers and partners on the technical fundamentals of our solutions
- Understand the solutions sales cycle and what technical demos will enhance customer education on key solution capabilities
- Opportunity to travel and connect with our global customer facing teams and product teams
- Contribute towards build and release automation script creation
- Maintain various set of automation scripts for different environments
- Participate and contribute towards versioning, branching and merging strategies
Qualifications for automation architect
- Proficiency with automation tools such as Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Jenkins, Microsoft Release Manager, or similar
- Knowledge of web GUI technologies (especially GWT) would be considered an advantage
- Expertise in Spring, JMS, RMI technologies
- SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect)
- Expertise in development platforms & frameworks and in representational languages
- Good Knowledge of Maven, GIT , Jenkins, Nexus
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Automation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an automation architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for automation architect
- Generate customized reports regarding environments, builds and releases
- Provides in-depth subject matter expertise in the development of a to-be solution architecture and technology/platform selection spanning SCADA, DCS, and MES layers of integration
- Leads and assists with the development of automation technical roadmaps, implementation plans, and establishes the validity of technical solutions and its components with both short- and long-term implications across all sites working with site partners
- Manage and lead workshops to gather user requirements and functionalities
- Collaborates with site and regional/global automation, engineering, and partner engineering organizations to develop technical collaterals that map site business requirements including creating solution architectures, standards, whitepapers, deployment guides, and best practices from a standardized technology portfolio
- Works collaboratively with automation and engineering site organizations during the technical development, launch and continuing refinement of automation solutions
- Applies advanced subject matter knowledge and is regarded as a technical subject matter expert for automation
- Acts as advisor to senior management and/or site partners on advanced technical applications or solutions
- Develops technological ideas and guides their development and implementation along with ensuring key performance indicators are well defined and measureable
- Work as part of the Design & Build group for contribution to the development and effectiveness of the department
Qualifications for automation architect
- Strong understanding of SDLC process and methodology
- Agile, Waterfall experience as a developer and a team lead
- Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and leadership skills
- At least 5+ years’ experience in customer-facing positions as a professional services consultant or engineer, in technical pre-sales, preferably with an Internet or “Big 4” consulting organization
- You have experience with full software lifecycle development including source control, iterative development, and rapid prototyping
- Comfortable understanding, explaining, exploring 3rd party APIs for integration/consumption
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Automation Architect Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an automation architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for automation architect
- Maintains a technology portfolio of automation assets at all business units and develop an accurate understanding of automation technical assets globally
- Builds and maintains working relationships with regional business partners, site leads, global automation solution partners and vendors for the technical design, integration, and implementation elements of the core model program
- Represents the global organization to ensure all central and site needs are being met including corporate and site quality standards
- Collaborates with the other departments and site teams to leverage lessons learned and operates as the central escalation point for Regional and/or site automation leads for ongoing support
- Travel to other international site locations and vendor facilities, is required
- This position is expected to work independently, with minimal supervision and direction
- Organize and define work for complex or ambiguous situations
- Provide consulting, training, and knowledge sharing to associates
- Actively contribute to domain body of knowledge
- Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for product or domain/technology
Qualifications for automation architect
- Experience in cloud orchestration and automation tools, design and deployment of data center virtualization technologies including NX-OS
- Understanding of customer Data Center operational models including Applications, Compute, Networking, storage and how these are tied together
- Knowledge of L2/L3 topology design and protocol implementation L4/L7
- Practical ITSM knowledge
- Configuring and clustering J2EE Application servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, or JBoss)
- Proficient in network provisioning and administration of load balancers, firewalls, routers and switches (virtual and physical)
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for an automation architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for automation architect
- Work across organizational boundaries to deliver quality products
- Establish and shepherd application/domain specific architecture
- Architect complex systems and logical subcomponents
- Produce quality code that is efficient, secure, supportable and consistent
- Understand the financial implications of technology decisions
- Establish application/engineering patterns
- Assess emerging technologies, making requirement based recommendations
- Create education materials used for formal training across orgs
- Partner with other architects to ensure solutions fit enterprise standards
- 10+ years experience in IT/Engineering
Qualifications for automation architect
- Demonstrated leadership and effectiveness in solving complex problems and delivering on high-profile projects
- Development experience in scripting languages, such as PowerShell, Unix Shell scripts, or VBScript
- Ability to develop new test automation framework
- Working knowledge in any of automation tools like UFT, Coded UI, Testcomplete, Ranorex, TOSCA
- Must have in-depth knowledge of automating backend tests for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase
- Experience with Keyword, Modular and data driven framework, performance testing using Jmeter or any other open source technology
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Automation Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an automation architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for automation architect
- 3+ years experience working with configuration management (Chef, Puppet)
- 3+ years building service oriented applications, APIs, and micro-services
- Hands on automation expertise
- Multi-datacenter deployment experience
- Virtualization experience (VMware, Openstack, Xen)
- Cloud (AWS, Rackspace, etc) experience
- VRealize Automation experience
- Experience working with large distributed systems
- Experience automating distributed systems (Hadoop, Cassandra)
- Architect, Design, Implement, and maintain continuous build and deployment delivery mechanisms, leveraging innovative solutions and automation
Qualifications for automation architect
- 10 years experience in Server Engineering in a global environment
- 5 years experience in VMware architecture
- Good understanding on industry standard databases like Oracle 10g, MS Sql Server
- Proficiency in using testing tools (e.g., RTC/RRC, Microsoft test manager), query experience with (SQL Server) and Internet Technologies (different browsers, HTML, JavaScript, ), Rubymine, Ruby-Cucumber, SOAP UI
- Proficiency in Agile Scrum environment
- CCNP+DC or equivalent experience