Platform Administration Lead

Job title: Platform Administration Lead with Management Experience

Job Location : Plano, Texas

Job type: Permanent

Job Description

⦁ Define project objectives and scope in alignment with business goals, ensuring efficient delivery in collaboration with stakeholders

⦁ Build and maintain strong client relationships, providing regular updates to ensure alignment and transparency

⦁ Drive process improvement by reviewing project deliverables and incorporating innovative methodologies related to product research and benchmarking studies, system configurations and assessment of new technologies

⦁ Identify potential risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes

⦁ Develop and manage project estimates, monitor budget performance, and optimize resource allocation for efficiency

⦁ Support the preparation of technical and commercial proposals, aligning them with client needs and organizational capabilities

⦁ Engage in planning resource allocation, conduct performance appraisals, and facilitate professional development to enhance team effective

⦁ Lead scope changes and manage client requirements, ensuring proper estimation, approval, and contractual updates

Your contribution to the team:

⦁ Demonstration of strategic mindset for delivering impactful, client-aligned projects

⦁ Problem-solving expertise and ability to steer project economics and delivery

⦁ Strong relationship with mid and senior level client stakeholders

⦁ Strong leadership abilities to foster team performance and growth

⦁ Commitment to cultivating a culture of learning and innovation

Required Skill and Experience

• Architecture and administration experience with Cloud Platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure)

• Define and implement enterprise platform architecture for cloud, data, integration, and analytics platforms

• Experience with platform automation, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of cloud security, networking, and identity management

• Lead and mentor platform administrators and engineers across multiple technology stacks

• Manage platform operations, incident management, and change governance

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, development teams, and business stakeholders

• Define and implement enterprise platform architecture for cloud, data, integration, and analytics platforms.

• Design scalable, resilient, and secure platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

• Establish best practices for platform architecture, governance, and security.

• Lead technology roadmap and platform modernization initiatives.

• Implement network architecture, identity management, security frameworks, and cost optimization strategies.

• Proven experience as Platform Architect / Solution Architect

• Technical leadership and stakeholder management

• Experience designing enterprise-scale platform architectures

• Hands-on knowledge of Azure and Databricks Admin.

• Ability to lead multi-technology platform teams

• Establish platform monitoring, observability, and automated alerting frameworks.

• Drive automation through Infrastructure-as-Code / Terraform, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement capacity planning, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies.

• Deliver platform health metrics, risk assessments, and operational reports.

Preferred Skill and Experience

• Experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or data platforms

• Certifications in cloud architecture (Azure/AWS) preferred

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks

• ITIL knowledge for service management and operations governance

• Web Services Integration technologies including Informatica and Oracle WebLogic Server

• Oversee administration and architecture of BI platforms including Microsoft Power BI and Tableau

• Optimize performance, security, and scalability of All platforms

• Ensure adherence to SLA, compliance, and operational standards

• Provide architectural oversight and administration for integration platforms such as Informatica and Oracle WebLogic Server.

• Ensure robust middleware Platform stability, and performance optimization

• Managed Kubernetes cluster and workload including network architecture