Drive holistic design & patterns for secure cloud application environments, Cloud platform enhancements, application architecture, data services, and cloud service integrations
Conduct technical audits of existing architectures (Infrastructure, Performance, Developing data security as a function of design, as well as Scalability and more)
Architect and implement cloud solutions for various application architectures, and programmatic integration of cloud applications, data services, and infrastructure.
Develop application data architecture models to further enable effective service-oriented delivery
Review application solution designs for cloud-fit and optimality and automate deployment patterns for reusability.
Assist LOBs to architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Cloud services.
Collaborates with other architects, operational/infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure new services align with application & infrastructure roadmaps
Consult and provide technical guidance to LOBs to refactor their application for the cloud using the 12-factor development practices for cloud-native and microservices oriented application deployment.
Partner with other stakeholders to drive the creation of Cloud migration & transformation strategy and roadmaps across application, information, business and technology landscapes
Identify and Analyze Cloud Infrastructure architecture gaps to propose new technologies.
Establish pilots and POCs for proposed solutions and make recommendations for approvals.
Document best practices and recommendations and create and maintain templates
Drive meetings with subject matter experts from all areas of the business including infrastructure, operations, applications, vendors and leads to seek input from and plan/coordinate migrations, resources requirements and timelines.
Engage with external vendors to review solutions, new capabilities and product, and service offerings
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Expert Level Azure and AWS Cloud Services and Architectures with a solid Developer background and recent architectural experience.
Deep Azure Databricks, Fabric, SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, RDS, Redshift, DocumentDB, DMS
Hands on coding capability (Python, Typescript, Java or NodeJS)
Exposure to AI/ML workflows, MLOps knowledge
Deep understanding of cloud design patterns, Cloud Native Architecture and principles, cloud operations and cloud security models
Good Understanding of CDK, AWS Sagemaker Studio (ML), Glue, Managed Airflow, Lakeformation, Athena, S3, ELK / OpenSearch Docker & Containers
Good understanding of visualization tools like AWS Quick Sight and Power BI reporting tool
10+ years experience in Application Development and design with demonstrated hands-on experience in designing and configuring secure and scalable cloud platforms patterns on Azure
3-4 recent years of Architect experience with high concentration in applications, Data, Artificial Intelligence and Infrastructure.
In-Depth knowledge of cloud services: Application integration, functions, Cloud Databases, data warehouse and analytics, Machine Learning, Developer Tools, Security and identity management
Proven and demonstrable experience in architecting, designing and implementing high volume, high availability cloud applications with a very high degree of automation
Demonstrated ability to easily deal with both abstract and concrete concepts and be able to reconcile them for the appropriate audience and context.
Proven ability to maintain both a strategic long-term outlook and enterprise perspective, while also supporting tangible, business driven and IT delivered solutions.
Quickly understand organizational dynamics and management priorities, and to be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, results-driven company.
Demonstrate strong facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to lead an in-depth client meeting/workshop across a broad range of topics including discovery, cloud compliance, and security.