Technical Leader for DC migration project

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For our Client we are currently looking for Candidates for the position of:

Technical Leader for DC migration project

Location: Warsaw / Al. Jerozolimskie

Model work: hybrid model (4 days from the office, 1 day remotely)

Branch: financial branch

Job type: B2B (with Hays Poland)

Rate: up to 216 PLN/h net on B2B

Start date: ASAP / 1 month notice period

Perform role of technical leader for application migration project, part of data center migration program.

There are X business applications to move, both home grown and vendor delivered, reasonably grouped in migration chunks (“buckets”) which will be planned to migrate together. There is number of underlying technologies used:

• Online (Realtime) applications
• High volume batch processing systems.

Supporting applications would need integration like Integration Service Bus, Control-M batch scheduler, Data and File replication technology, Common network attached resources

What will you do:

• Explore and document “as-is” state
• Agree migration goals and strategy and help to agree level of transformation (eg. infra or application component upgrades, deployment in containers, conversion to active-active, etc)
• Prepare “to-be” deployment architecture and design
• Document migration plan (per app and per basket)
• Adapt / Refactor / Test the application code as per target architecture / design (if needed) – at minimum it may include upgrade of middleware and libraries/ dependencies
• Specify and build new DEV/ QA / UAT/ CAT / PROD & DR environments in target data centers
• Identify firewall requirements and request firewall whitelisting,
• Identify Load Balancing requirements and request new LB configurations.
• Identify middleware and database requirements and facilitate necessary changes with client teams.
• Create necessary documentation to socialize the solution and migration approach (templates will be provided)
• Test new deployment and migration scenario in test regions, perform required PEN testing
• Perform required external and internal certifications (Payment Organizations, internal certifications and accreditations)
• Migrate production services/ customers, up/down application streams, preferably avoiding risky “big bangs”
• Decommission old environments.

What will you get:

• Long-term cooperation with the client implementing projects for the largest players in the banking, financial, insurance, telco and more sectors
• Fast recruitment process - one or two meetings
• Standard benefits - preferential rates for LuxMed and Multisport packages
• When you choose to work via Hays, you also get the opportunity to work for many of Hays' other leading clients in the future

What we expect from you:

• Experience working in similar roles / projects (application migrations, re- deployments etc)
• Excellent communication skills, good written and spoken English language, Polish in addition would be an advantage.
• Ability to absorb adequate level of knowledge working with application SMEs
• Practical experience in working out and documenting architecture / design in cooperation with architecting teams and various Clients internal competence centres.
• Wide knowledge of spectrum of IT technologies used by applications, middleware. Practical experience with application deployment in the AWS or Azzure cloud, CI/CD issues, containerization, Kubernetes may be an advantage.
• Understanding of availability, performance, monitoring and resilience aspects for semi real time online transaction systems and mass transaction processing systems
• High level understanding of infrastructure aspects, network solutions, load balancing, TLS
• Domain knowledge on transaction acquiring and card issuer services will be an advantage.
• Independence and goal orientation, independence in setting achievable goals in projects and cooperation in their implementation.
• Responsibility: care for product quality, making and keeping commitments
• Cooperation: the ability to share knowledge and experience, find compromises, build correct relationships within the local organization and in the corporation.

What will the recruitment process look like:

1. Your CV will be verified by Hays Recruiter
2. Recruiter will contact you by phone - a 15-minute conversation about the project and your experience
3. Technical conversation with the client - online meeting (1h)
4. Offer
5. Welcome to the project!

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