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Overview

Enterprise Mobility is the world’s largest car rental operator and an industry leader in mobility and technology. We’re one of the top global travel companies, ranking ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines and hotels. And no matter what transportation challenges our customers face, we have an innovative solution.

We operate the Enterprise Rent-A-Car National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands via more than 10,000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport offices, including franchisee branches, in over 90 countries and territories.

Through this robust global network, we operate a fleet of over 2.3 million vehicles and provide a comprehensive portfolio of transportation solutions, including car rental, carsharing, vanpooling, car sales, truck rental, vehicle-subscription and affiliated fleet management services. As a total mobility provider, we serve the needs of a wide variety of customers, businesses, government agencies and organizations every day.

At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.

As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

This position offers the opportunity to work fully remote within the United States (except for Alaska and/or Hawaii). Team members who choose virtual / remote work should have an adequate space to serve as their home office, and must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours . #LI-REMOTE

Responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Solution Architect in the IT Resiliency & Recovery organization. This area is focused on establishing a cross-IT discipline dedicated to ensuring our products have the appropriate levels of both resiliency and recovery. This includes all IT managed technology which our business depends on ranging from custom business applications to infrastructure across our data centers, clouds, and third-party partners. This is an excellent time to be part of the Resiliency & Recovery team as this is a newly established function with tremendous opportunity for growth. We are actively partnering with business and IT leadership to roadmap the next several years and beyond to transform how we look at resiliency and recovery capabilities. 

As a Lead Solution Architect , you will be responsible for identifying and driving the general technical direction and architectural patterns for both resiliency and recovery. This is an exciting and challenging role as it will require both broad technical knowledge across the range of technologies used at Enterprise and an understanding of how our many IT systems are connected together to create business value. To be successful in this role, you will need to advocate for appropriate applications of resiliency and recovery to architecture and be able to influence the technical approach of other teams - this is a highly visible and collaborative role! You will be a subject matter expert for all things resiliency and recovery across the IT organization and will collaborate with domain-aligned solution architects, policy & standards leaders, business continuity experts, and various levels of IT leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and design innovative architectural solutions and patterns for the resiliency and recovery of IT products

• Help drive and mature processes which prioritize investments by business criticality and balance protection with risk.

• Maintain expertise in emerging architectural methods, technologies, business strategies, Enterprise standards, and security best practices and apply them in the context of resiliency and recovery.

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams on standards, guidance, best practices, and processes for resiliency and recovery.

• Define and maintain technical roadmaps and strategies that align with IT and business needs

• Provide thought leadership, instruction, and mentorship to department.

• Ability to troubleshoot solutions for root cause, suggesting solutions and new designs when necessary.

• Influence and partner with tech leadership across the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Qualifications

Required:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future

• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area

• Must reside in the United States (does not include Alaska or Hawaii)

• Must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours

• 8 or more years of relevant experience designing and developing large scale solutions

• Expert knowledge of and experience with resiliency engineering

• Must be able to demonstrate pragmatic application of resiliency patterns to address backpressure, isolation, and fault tolerance appropriate to solution needs and business criticality

• Expertise in resiliency and recovery concepts such as fail-over, immutable backups, redundancy, ephemerality, single-point-of-failure, and disaster recovery exercises (DRX)

• Familiarity with business continuity concepts including Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and recovery tiers

• Experience with cloud architectures and technologies including AWS and Azure

• Protect our customers, our employees, and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions; ensures security policy and procedure requirements are met; continuously identifies opportunities for improving security and implements strategies to improve our security posture

• Must possess exceptional communication skills and the ability to effectively pitch ideas and solutions; produce business relevant presentations, and convey complex information in a manner that is easily understood and actionable to both non-technical and technical leaders

• Experience defining architectural considerations and collaborating with Engineers and other Architects on the direction for the development of solutions or enhancements

• Proven ability to operate in a highly autonomous fashion, repeatedly exercises exceptional, independent judgment, balances strategic against tactical planning

• Experience leading operational and strategic activities

• Ability to stay up to date on industry trends, products, applications, technical service, market conditions, and competitive activities

• Broad knowledge of various technology areas including but not limited to application development, infrastructure, cloud, storage, networking, and security is strongly recommended

• Ability to communicate at all levels, build and foster relationships, including coaching and mentoring other architects, engineers, and business leaders

• Professional experience identifying and gathering solution needs; performing risk analysis, defining architecture; acting and driving key stakeholder acceptance

• Demonstrate flexibility and agility related to critical thinking and making decisions with complex considerations as it relates to business implications

• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred

Enterprise Mobility/Enterprise Rent-A-Car/Alamo Rent A Car and National Car Rental seeks and values people of all backgrounds because every employee, customer and business partner is important. Enterprise Mobility is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use this alternative email address (JobsPrivacy@ehi.com) to contact us about your interest in employment.