Technical Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Resident Technical Solution Architect — Infrastructure & Systems
Years of Experience: 7+ years

Job Description

• Map the environment: servers, domain, network, firewalls, DNS and certificates.
• Find every background process: Windows services, Task Scheduler jobs, SQL Agent jobs, scripts and batch files.
• Work out what each job does, when it runs, and to which systems it connects.
• Trace network traffic to identify all inbound and outbound connections (APIs, SFTP, file shares, database links).
• Review IIS setup, service accounts, permissions and security exposure — the portal is publicly reachable.
• Check backups and help set up a safe copy of the environment for analysis.
• Produce the infrastructure document, network diagram, batch job catalogue and runbook.
• Work read-only on production and report progress daily.

Three-Month Plan

Month 1

• Get access.
• Find every server, service, scheduled job and network path behind the application.
• Deliverables: Infrastructure inventory, first network diagram.

Month 2

• Trace what each background job does, when it runs, and to which systems it talks.
• Deliverables: Batch job catalogue, integration flows at network level.

Month 3