Systems Architecture Coordinator

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or Telecommunications
• Required English level B2 minimum (C1 desirable)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector and at least 5 years in similar roles.
• Design of cloud, hybrid, and on-premise infrastructure architectures, including connectivity and integration models between environments.
• Container platform architecture (Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes): cluster topology, persistent storage, traffic management and service mesh, on-demand execution, and stateless and stateful workloads.
• High availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery architecture.
• Storage and data protection architecture.
• Network and communications architecture applied to platforms: segmentation, balancing, service publishing, and connectivity with cloud providers.
• Cross-cutting infrastructure services: name resolution, addressing, and directory and identity services.
• Automation and infrastructure as code in provisioning and configuration management.
• Definition of standards, technology catalog, and architecture decision governance.
• Technical leadership capacity for architecture teams and liaison capacity with business, operations, and vendor areas.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Organizational and communication capacity at an executive level.
• Goal-oriented.
• Quality orientation and proven experience in project management.
• Knowledge of economic-financial management of technology projects.
• Interest in new technologies.

• Certification in Kubernetes-based container orchestration platforms.
• Architect-level or infrastructure administration certification in Azure or AWS.
• Additional training in architecture governance frameworks or IT.
• Experience in executing transformation processes in large companies will be valued.
• Experience in horizontal services: enterprise storage platforms (IBM, HP, EMC, NetApp), corporate backup solutions (Commvault, TSM, Networker), Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Design of observability strategies: metrics, traces, logging, and APM.
• Platform security architecture: hardening and regulatory compliance.
• Infrastructure cost models and FinOps practices.
• Modeling tools and notations: ArchiMate, Aris.
• Experience in regulated environments or with audit requirements.

As the Systems Architecture Domain Lead, you will have the mission to lead the definition, evolution, and governance of the Santalucía Group's systems architecture, establishing the strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technological assets necessary to ensure alignment with the corporate technology strategy.

You will be responsible for defining and evolving the company's technological infrastructure architecture, including computing, storage, networks, virtualization and container platforms, operating systems, and cloud services, ensuring that the solutions supporting the business are deployed on reliable, secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient platforms.

Likewise, you will be responsible for the comprehensive management of the domain, including capacity planning and development, team and vendor coordination, budget management, and supervision of associated activities. You will actively participate in strategic initiatives and corporate projects, collaborating with different business and technology areas to facilitate the implementation of efficient, secure solutions aligned with the company's transformation and growth objectives.

Systems Architecture domain coordination: You will be the domain lead, reporting to the Technological Architecture lead. In charge of people management and team capacity, including the external vendor teams that make up the domain across the various services provided.

You will collaborate in the management and preparation of budgets corresponding to the Systems Architecture domain, being required to follow up on the billing and forecast process for the budget lines managed by the domain itself, as well as direct participation in the annual project portfolio estimation process.

Systems reference architecture governance. Definition of best practices, regulations, and architecture design guides for application within the Santalucía ecosystem, as well as management of the governance model and lifecycle of architecture assets.

Technological evolution. Definition and governance of the corporate systems architecture evolution roadmap for the Santalucía Group, through the design and development of PoCs based on the latest technological trends, as well as the management of projects in which the Systems Architecture domain acts in the role of Project Manager/IT Lead.

Must ensure proper alignment with the rest of the Technology Architecture domain, aiming to achieve a unified technology strategy.

Liaison with other areas and departments: You will be the main interlocutor for the domain with the rest of the areas and departments with which it interacts, ensuring coordination with Infrastructure and Operations, the rest of the Technological Architecture sub-domains, and the other Enterprise Architecture domains.

Participation in projects and initiatives. Management of participation in the definition, design, deployment, and production phases of applications from the Systems Architecture scope, following the lifecycle and methodologies defined for the ecosystem, as well as participation in the evolution of these.

Production support. You will help provide the Organization with an agile technological infrastructure that, supported by components and assets, allows the Technology Area to provide rapid and efficient coverage of the business needs required by the IT Strategic and Transformation Plan.

Teams to interact with:

• Infrastructure and Operations. Establishing a relationship of co-responsibility regarding the technological platform where Architecture defines standards, target technology, and design criteria, and Operations validates the operability of the solutions and is responsible for their implementation and exploitation.
• Demand management: Receipt of business demand and the requirements associated with each, determining the need for functional architecture intervention and its type of involvement.
• Application development, Channels/Clients, and Analytical Center of Excellence: Recipients of the defined solution models and responsible for implementing them according to said definition.
• Business: Support in the definition and translation of needs into platform requirements and ensuring alignment with the corporate IT strategy.
• Enterprise Architecture (other domains): Alignment with the guidelines and strategy of all architecture domains, as part of the function of the Enterprise Architecture Department, both for the preparation of solution models and for the validation of technical designs.
• Professional and technology service providers and product manufacturers: Necessary both for the performance of the company's IT area activities, with the corresponding management of people and resources, and for knowledge of new technologies and trends, as well as their evaluation and application in current systems or platforms.