Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the clients objectives.
• Designs and architects cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Assesses existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Designs integration solutions to enable seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Defines and enforces security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems.
• Develops and maintains cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Provides guidance and support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices.
• Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.
• Assists with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.
• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on cloud technologies and architectures.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and project managers, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
• Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit this role will evaluate each opportunity for alignment with organizational capabilities and business policy, prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regard to their needs, as understood, document the proposed technology solution,,, perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided, develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required, engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design, prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution, document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion,

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Solid client engagement skills coupled solid technical consulting aptitude.
• Seasoned understanding of the vendor’s products business and technology positioning.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, contributing to their success
• Broad product knowledge integrated with technology understanding.
• Seasoned knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, including microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Seasoned proficiency in cloud infrastructure technologies, such as virtual machines, storage solutions, networking, and load balancing.
• In-depth understanding of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Understanding cloud design patterns, microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Deep knowledge such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other providers, understanding the specific services offered by each platform, including compute, storage, databases, networking, and security.
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, load balancing, and firewall configurations.
• Knowledge of VPNs, VPC peering, and hybrid connectivity options between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), encryption, data protection, secure network configurations, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.
• Proficiency in cloud storage solutions such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
• Understanding of different database options including relational databases (e.g., Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB).
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and management tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Knowledge of integration technologies such as API gateways, messaging queues, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelors degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect.
• Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

Required Experience:

• Seasoned professional technical experience within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment.
• Seasoned experience as a Cloud Technical Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud architectures for complex systems and applications.
• Seasoned experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions, preferably using leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Seasoned experience in a professional technical role.
• Seasoned experience in project management methodologies.
• Seasoned experience with major cloud platforms.
• Seasoned experience with serverless computing platforms such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Seasoned experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to streamline the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources.