Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect-Remote -EST Only

Title Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect

Location-Remote-EST Only

Duration Longterm

Job Description:

WHAT YOU LL DO

Strategy and Architecture:

• Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the design and implementation of infrastructure architectures in specific business or functional areas. Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products. Within a business change program, assists in the preparation of technical plans and cooperates with business assurance and project staff to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Applies ethical and robust techniques in the technology transformation in line with organizational policies and procedures and being sensitive to risks around the use of information.
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies, and tools.

Change and Transformation:

• Investigates operational needs, problems and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and solutions. Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.
• Uses established techniques to identify current problems and document business functional, data and non-functional requirements for simple subject areas with clearly defined boundaries. Assists in more complex requirements activities and with the processes for establishing agreed baselines for change and managing the assessment and application of requested changes to those requirements.

Development and implementation:

• Defines solution development projects which support the organization s objectives and plans. Ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resources. Contributes effectively to improving solution development processes within the organization justified by measurable business benefits. Facilitates availability and optimum utilization of resources, especially in Agile projects. Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects, ensuring that projects are carried out in accordance with agreed standards, methods and procedures (including secure software development). Applies secure development improvement practices.
• Recommends/designs structures and tools for systems which meet business needs and considers target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems. Delivers technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by customer and execution by system developers. Translates logical designs into physical designs and produces detailed design documentation. Maps work to user specification and removes errors and deviations from specification to achieve user-friendly processes.
• Leads technical team, providing expert technical knowledge during product testing. Provides specialist guidance information to Quality Engineering functions to assist in improving validation procedures.
• Specifies and designs complex infrastructure components / solutions. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise policies, and ensures they are applied effectively. Reviews existing designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and effective integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Contributes to policy for selection of components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks. Ensures that hardware designs balance functional, service quality, performance, security, systems management and sustainability requirements.

Delivery and Operation:

• Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability. Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels. Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. Contributes in testing of recovery procedures.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Passion and Energy to work in a team to turn a vision into a reality, with sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions

Advanced technical acumen serving as an advisor to management, interpreting business challenges and recommending best practices to improve technology products, processes or services through applicable technology

Empower the team to understand and be comfortable with failing fast and learning from failures to fully realize and maximize innovative spirit of the team.

Establish decisive decision making utilizing strategic thinking and guidance from stakeholders and teams consuming and supporting services.

Establish strong focus on ensuring services can be effectively ran by operations.

Customer-focused mindset Drive the team to work together to solve real problems for our customers and users.

A strong focus on the details, by coaching and influencing the team to pay attention to the details.

Have an eye for how to market the services properly and effectively to our customers and other key stakeholders.

Bring focus on identifying, building, and effectively tracking efficiencies, via metrics, for enterprise services.

OTHER DUTIES

• Performs other duties as assigned by management

JOB QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Education:

• Preferred: Bachelor s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.
• Preferred Architecture Certification: TOGAF, ARCHIMATE, ZACHMAN, or equivalent.

Experience:

• More than 15 years IT Experience
• More than 8 years experience within Cloud Architecture Role and at least 3 years technical leadership experience
• Recent experience within Architecture, Design and implementation of complex, highly available and scalable solutions
• More than 3 years experience with migrating datacenters workloads towards Azure and/or AWS.
• Cloud Computing
• Containerization
• Cloud Services and Data Storage
• Information Security
• AI use cases
• Cloud Networking
• Enterprise-wide Architectural governance, architecture decisions, exceptions, standards etc
• Development of complex business cases
• ITIL Service Life Cycle

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Project management skills: financial/budget management, scheduling and resource management
• Patience
• Meticulous attention to details

Regards,

Sai Srikar

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