Architect - Collaboration Services

Requisition ID: 42624
- Job Location(s): Oragadam, IN

The Digital Workplace Architect will play a pivotal role within the Architecture and Collaboration Services organization. Your expertise and strategic vision will empower our employees, enhance their productivity, and drive the digital transformation of our organization.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with individual Danfoss business units and IT Solution Owners to create and define new services.
- Resolve unique or complex architecture problems and handle vendor/partner selection.
- Develop strategic documentation and communicate this work throughout the organization.
- Undertake multiple, highly complex architecture projects impacting multiple business units.
- Produce solutions involving more than one type of technology and/or architecture.
- Understand the solution lifecycle from strategy, design, and implementation through to completion, enabling successful solution designs.
- Provide deliverables like architecture designs to help the Operational Architecture Forum (OAF) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investments on the business and IT real estate.
- Define, assess, and evaluate solutions while ensuring alignment with strategic roadmaps, target architectures, industry standards, and other Danfoss Group IT Architecture teams.
- Provide design and budgetary input to project portfolio initiatives.
- Offer design leadership to support Merger and Acquisition IT integrations.

**Background & Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience supporting and implementing Digital Workplace, Collaboration, and Productivity solutions in a large enterprise IT environment.
- Experience in requirements-gathering and architecture development.
- Experience performing technology assessments and making recommendations.
- Knowledge of IP infrastructure, virtualization, hypervisors, and cloud-based networks.
- Experience with UCaaS/Partner ecosystems.
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft 365/Azure Collaboration and Security Technologies.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Power Apps.
- Ability and willingness to share knowledge and expertise among various organizations and stakeholders within the company, including senior IT leadership.
- Ability and willingness to take the initiative to facilitate teamwork within the various organizations.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Visio, DrawIO, Archimate.
- Ability to travel internationally (10-20%).
- Knowledge of ITSM Foundation, ITIL Best Practices, as well as TOGAF Architecture Principles.
- Must be fluent in English, both orally and written.

**Employee Benefits**:
We are excited to offer you the following benefits with your employment:

- Bonus system
- Paid vacation
- Flexible working hours
- Possibility to work remotely
- Pension plan
- Personal insurance
- Communication package
- Opportunity to join Employee Resource Groups
- State of the art virtual work environment
- Employee Referral Program

**Danfoss - Engineering Tomorrow**:
At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off
- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 42.000 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, au