IT Platform Architect Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

About ASML
ASML is a successful high-tech company headquartered in the Netherlands, which manufactures complex lithography machines that chip manufacturers use to produce integrated circuits. Every year, chips become faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient, and breakthroughs in ASML's research activities have played an important part in making it possible. In the space of 25 years we have grown from nothing into a multinational company with 55 locations in 16 countries and annual sales of 5.6 billion Euros in 2011.

IT Platform Architect Job Description

Job Mission
In this role you are responsible for defining and maintaining the technology architecture for tooling, monitoring and orchestration architecture. To achieve this you will be in contact with a wide range of stakeholders as listed below:
The lead infra architect:

• Coordination with overall enterprise & infrastructure strategy including roadmaps - Adherence to enterprise architecture governance - Escalations on any design issues - Coach/mentor on IT architecture

• Resource planning
• Coach on general development

• Analyze technology and solution trends
• Discuss technology lifecycle management
• Analyze current technology shortcomings

• Analyze, design, review and/or approve solution designs during projects
• Supervise implementations of solutions during projects - in accordance with design

• Analyze current service incidents/problems check for structural technology improvements
• Guard lifecycle management
• Verify if architecture meets service level requirements

• The role reports directly to the team manager of the tooling and processes department.
• Functionally the role reports to the lead infrastructure architect.

• Define platform standards and future state for tooling, monitoring & orchestration services
  - Creation and maintenance of guidelines, reference architectures, guiding principles and solution building blocks
  - Creation and maintenance of technology roadmaps - Research, cost-justify and drive technological improvements through position papers
  - Cooperate with enterprise architecture to assure overall fit & integration and define target architectures
• Decision owner for architectural decisions
  - Identifying the decisions to be taken about the solution
  - Advise management to support the decision making process 
  - Communicating the decisions and their impact to stakeholders
• Supervise design within Programs and DevOps teams 
  - Review and/or approve technical solutions 
  – assurance of compliance with directives, standards and guidelines 
  - Ensure that the implementation is in line with design
• Maintenance of design documents within your domain

• At least 5 years of relevant IT experience in designing and deploying enterprise level monitoring and orchestration tools
• Proven experience/expert knowledge in one or more of the following: 
  - IT operations analytics and AIOps technologies such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Dynatrace, Moogsoft, Datadog... 
  - Event/alert management such as ServiceNow event management
  - Dashboarding and reporting such as ServiceNow and Splunk
  - Orchestration/automation technologies such as ServiceNow, Runbook, Ansible
  - Monitoring technologies such as SCOM, Splunk, Dynatrace APM, Netdialog, ThousandEyes 
  - General configuration management technologies like ServiceNow CMDB, SCCM, Red Hat Satellite
• Knowledge of and experience with IT architecture methodologies and processes (e.g. TOGAF), service management methods and processes (ITIL) and agile (SCRUM, SAFe)
• Experience with outsourcing of IT services
• Proven track record in road mapping, technical architecture design, solution definition, project management/execution, change/risk management
• Work experience from large, international companies and have dealt with or worked for global service providers.

• Creates context instead of needing context.
• Passionate about driving new technology solutions (change);
• Recognized industry expert with knowledge sharing mentality;
• Good communication and presentation skills (selling the solution);
• Team player with strong leadership skills;
• Strong documentation skills;
• Is able to deliver high quality and value-added advices, based on accurate and objective interpretation of needs, of the internaland/or external stakeholders
• Able to express ideas effectively in individual and group situations(including non-verbal communication); adjusting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience, and the ability to listen effectively to others and give constructive feedback to others.
• Good customer focus and customer facing skills.
• Able to execute a task in a good manner and with good results with limited supervision.

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