Description:

This client is in need of a Cloud Architect to add to their Cloud Center of Excellence (COE). OneAmerica is continuing with their cloud transformation so this architect will be heavily involved with the strategy, planning, road-mapping, and implementation around their cloud journey and optimization. This client has made the decision to leverage Azure for 90% of their environment with the remaining 10% sitting with AWS.

Job Summary:

Responsible for defining IT Cloud architecture to enable current and future business capabilities. This role participates as a top-level expert in the enterprise providing direction and leading multiple efforts, or a single large effort in analysis, design, scope, and approach of a Cloud solution. The Enterprise Cloud Architect is charged with improving the consistency, timeliness, quality, security and delivery of IT Cloud services. This role will have primary focus on the Azure and AWS Cloud environments.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Lead the planning and execution of client's Cloud first strategy

Lead the strategic direction for client's future direction for the usage of cloud services

Lead the definition of Standards, Policies and Procedures and best practices for the usage of cloud-based services and infrastructure

Ability to understand and manage to budget as well as assist in annual budget exercise

Identify solutions that represent opportunities to leverage cloud services and architectures by evaluating quality attributes, technology risk, capacity variability, and other factors where a cloud native architecture solution can add benefit to the overall solution.

Develop overall Cloud Roadmap and Technology Platforms

Develop Cloud COE principles, bets practices and Governance framework

Identifying the best technical solutions that can be rolled out efficiently and, in a cost-effective manner

Lead and advise teams building solutions on cloud platforms including design, planning, management, maintenance and assessing systems for potential weaknesses or issues.

Collaborate across organizational functions to identify communications, change management and training needs driven by the adoption of cloud technologies

Facilitate technical and design discussions with IT executives to help the enterprise improve outcomes thru new cloud technologies and practices

Lead the evaluation of technology choices (network, compute, storage, and other service enabled capabilities) through the larger cloud team and collaboration with other part of the enterprise.

Ensures appropriate operational procedures, processes and tools are in place and appropriately managed.

Understand the financial impacts of cloud based architectural decisions and lead cloud cost management solutions, forecasting and proactive cloud management practices.

Effectively communicates across the enterprise cloud expenses and opportunities to manage cost

Job Requirements

Required Education and/or Certifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math, Information Systems or a related technical field.

Required Work Experience:

5 or more years of experience as an enterprise Cloud architect role acting as an individual contributor or leading a team in the design and implementation of IT Cloud architecture with primary experience in the Azure Cloud environment

10 or more years work experience in IT Cloud or related experience can be substituted in lieu of a degree in addition to the minimum years of work experience required.

Experience in Modeling, Tradeoff Analysis, Roadmaps, Architecture Documents

Recommended:

Demonstrated experience/knowledge of Financial Services products and processes (Life Insurance, Annuities, Investments, and Financial Advice)

Demonstrated strategic thinker, plans IT Cloud architecture by studying the business/product strategy and target audience, envisioning architectural scheme and end user compute.

Develop and deliver Cloud strategy and architecture artifacts; verify alignment of Cloud development to architectural design.

Demonstrated experience in leadership, mentorship, managing stakeholders & collaboration with architectural partners

Skills:

Azure, IaaS, CI/CD, Infrastructure, Applications, migrations, PaaS, SaaS, scripting, Terraform

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

1. Top 3 Technical skills – Cloud Native service design to implement new services, Cloud optimization/maturity to serverless services & Cloud COE maturity models

2. Projects/Initiatives they will be impacting or aligned to – We have 5 primary initiatives in the company and this role will partner with the current Cloud architect to determine assignments within those initiatives. We also have several Cloud initiatives that are delayed getting started that this role will be assigned to

3. Status of your cloud environment in general to give an individual an idea of what they are stepping in to – Overall status is good and we continue to mature our Cloud. Continuing to support the initiatives and looking for way to avoid the traditional build a server model will be a major focus

4. Any other additional technical skills or focus areas you want us to make sure we target – Primary Cloud is Azure and the focus is there, expertise in AWS would also be good as we have a couple of initiatives that this resource may be assigned to

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