Senior Architect - AWS Cloud (8-12 yrs)

Role : Sr Architect IT (AWS) in Product company

Job Location : Gurgaon

Experience : 8-12 Years

Notice period : 60 Days

Job overview and responsibilities :

- Recognized expert in the enterprise architecture discipline.

- Define roadmaps to bridge the gap from the current to future state for business, information, and technology capabilities.

- Provide industry-leading thought leadership and facilitate the development of strategies across multiple disciplines/domains.

- Facilitate the development of architecture patterns and standards.

- Consult on the design of complex enterprise initiatives and provide guidance to project teams.

- Manage enterprise architecture models and repositories. Communicate and market the enterprise architecture strategy and ensure the successful delivery of each solution.

- Architecting and delivering highly-scalable and flexible, cost-effective enterprise solutions

- Strong AWS experience across various services - Compute, Databases, and Sreaming Services

- Work closely with the principal architects to deliver the needed architectures

- Anticipate future technology requirements and communicate those to the leadership and multi- functional teams.

- Understand the current state of the organization-wide architecture. Identify key business drivers and technology capabilities required to achieve optimal state.

- Coordinate with collaborator teams and own the conversation to define use cases, goals, objectives, and architecture to support the business needs.

- Build relationships with senior leadership. Engage and evangelize recommendations to senior leadership teams.

Qualifications : Required :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business

- 6+ years of applicable experience in business, information or technology architecture

- Experience in leading technical staff or coordinating work across multiple technology teams

Technical Skills :

- Experience in designing applications using AWS cloud architecture & services which supports highly resilient multi-region systems. AWS cloud services include ECS, EKS, RDS/Aurora,

- DynamoDB, Lambda, MSK/Solace, S3, or similar cloud services if coming from other cloud experiences.

- Experience in common architecture frameworks such as Microservices, REST APIs management including Authentication & authorization

- Event-driven architectures to support high throughput, lower latency systems, i.e., Kafka/MSK, Solace Streaming or any others.

- Experience working with various teams including PlatformOps/DevOps and Development teams.

- Review architectural designs with various stakeholders.

- Architecture experience using various tools like Visio, Draw.io, Lucid and others to provide cloud architecture designs including resiliency structures.

- Able to understand and help implementation teams using object-oriented programming languages if and when required, i.e., Java, .Net, Python etc.

- Business Acumen : The ability to make insightful, successful business decisions and tradeoffs assessing the internal and external business landscape, strategies, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses. Involves knowledge of the industry - and awareness of the key trends shaping the future of the corporation

- Creativity & Innovation - The ability to define new, original ideas and successfully implement them across an organization. Involves an ability to think "outside-in", assess conventional work products and processes, define new concepts, and manage change across the organization in implementing them

- Persuasion - The ability to engage and enroll others in an initiative - both individually and in a group setting. Involves articulating the new possibility for others - and leading and engaging others in direct, positive, meaningful conversations

- "Big Picture" Thinker - The ability to maintain perspective and establish context. Involves being able to recognize patterns and predict outcomes - and leverage them to redirect personal and/or team work effort in the optimal direction

- Strategic - The ability to visualize and plan for outcomes in the future, and sustain work in achieving the outcomes. Involves an ability to support short-term trade-offs in order to achieve longer term gain

- Communication Skills - The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication.

- Involves an ability to speak and write clearly and understandably at the right level

- Technical Expertise - Involves demonstrating a commitment to increasing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs

- Integrity and Trust - Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, truthful individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn't misrepresent him/herself for personal gain

- Prioritization - The ability to successfully manage multiple competing work efforts across multiple teams. Involves assessing impacts, importance and urgency and setting direction and expectations - in order to meet or exceed expectations for timeliness and quality of work

Preferred :

- Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business

- Expertise in design and implementation of complex IT solutions

- Technical knowledge in area of expertise

- Awareness of industry best practices and research