Senior Cloud Architect

• Assessment & Strategy: Partner with stakeholders, and technical teams to understand the requirements, processes, and desired outcomes. Analyze current systems and identify areas for improvement
• Solution Architecture: Translate business needs into robust and scalable system architecture spanning across multiple current and next-gen systems hosted in the cloud. The system architecture will be fault-tolerant, scalable, easy to evolve, flexible enough to incrementally deliver to meet the evolving business needs, workload demands, and compliance requirements.
• Technical Architecture: By possessing a strong understanding of AWS & Azure platform services, application development frameworks, and security best practices, you will be creating technical architecture and component designs that can be successfully implemented by the development teams.
• Implementation and Management: Oversee the development process, ensuring the solution is built according to their design. Participate in testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance to guarantee a smooth-running system.
• Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate effectively with various stakeholders, including business leaders, fellow architects, product/engineering teams, and cloud vendors. Clearly communicate complex cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Represent the group as a stakeholder in architecture forums and discussions and advocate for the benefits of the systems being developed.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentations, including system and technical architecture, best practices, proposals and narratives.

• Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: Proven experience as a Systems Architect, Solutions Architect or similar role (3+ years), preceded by a Technical architect role (5+ years). Solid understanding of microservcies architecture, design principles, network architecture, and security best practices.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
• Serverless - lambda, azure functions
• Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes
• SRE/DevOps - Familiarity with IaC & observability engineering
• Tech stack - Preferably C#, Java & Python, GraphQL, CQRS

• Certifications: Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert etc.) are highly desirable
• Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly grasp complex business processes and design effective technical solutions
• Communication Skills: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Leadership: Proven leadership abilities, with experience managing and mentoring development teams.