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Royal Caribbean Group’s IT Architecture Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead Architect Application Platforms reporting to the Senior Manager Technical Product
This role will work on-site in Miramar Florida

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Lead Architect – Application Platforms is responsible for Architecture and technical leadership in our Enterprise Architecture(EA) team which works on enterprise-wide initiatives The Enterprise Architect is responsible for technology architecture roadmaps design and technical leadership for the various projects with an SME ownership for architecture functions in multiple areas of application platform (network data center systems DB middleware etc) and help architect application deployment to the on-premise data centers and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms

QUALIFICATIONS:

15+ years of experience with IT architecture data centers middleware

• database and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services in a large enterpriseBachelor’s degree required
• with an MS/MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Experience with application & middleware technology family of products
• Architecture and design experience with application platform implementationsExperience in DevOps
• DevSecOps and Application Performance Management implementationsPlatform design and implementation experience with projects that encompass digital webservices microservices
• API gateways etcExperience with docker/container platforms that includes Kubernetes
• etcExperience in administering messaging solutions that include Confluent Kafka
• etc
• Strong knowledge of operating systems and virtualization technologies
• Experience with middleware clustering and load balancingWorking knowledge of Microsoft Azure AWS GCP
• OCIProficiency in project estimations capacity planning
• and availability planning
• Documentation and development of processes and procedures
• Experienced in managing 100+ applications
• Automation and Scripting experience
• Experience as team lead or architectExperience with Architecture frameworks like Zachman FEA TOGAF

• Provide Technical architecture and guidance to management as it relates to various enterprise IT systemsProvide platform architecture roadmaps and designs for application runtimes that encompasses network systems middleware database and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services (AWS Azure GCP