Azure Cloud Architect

Azure Cloud Architect

The roles & responsibilities include the following.

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.
Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing.
Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics.
Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements.
Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads.
Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance.
Optimize parallel processing, GPU utilization, and distributed computing.
Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization.
Be capable of designed transactional compute patterns with compensation patterns
Explore serverless computing options (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, etc.) for event-driven workloads.
Design event-driven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers.
Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
Integrate security best practices into compute designs.
Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Define monitoring metrics for compute resources.
Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics.
Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation
Familiarity with IAM, Azure Policy and Private Link configuration
Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.
Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.
Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.
Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation.
Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.
Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.
Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.
Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.
Understanding of security best practices and standards.
Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.
Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments, integration platforms, data flows, application inventories, entity-relationships, and process workflows.
Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.
Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same.
Work with other enterprise architecture team to align various solutions architecture to enterprise standard, reference architecture, patterns, and best practices.
Identify technology trends which have the potential for the World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms and/or hosting solutions.
Develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise, to enable business strategy and deliver business outcomes.

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

About 8+ years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with Azure
Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for large-scale, production-grade applications
In-depth knowledge of Azure compute services (VMs, Azure Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Batch, etc.).
Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.).
Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios
Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
Staying informed about emerging front-end technologies and trends.
Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure cloud platforms and services in an enterprise environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor design).
Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development initiatives.
Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud integration.
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., Azure Resource Manager).
Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).
Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting changes to development, testing, deployment, migration/transformation, and configuration management processes consistent with a DevOps approach.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define technology roadmaps and evaluate total-cost-of-ownership of solutions.
Experience evaluating cloud service designs and alternatives to achieve desired balance of performance, risk, and cost.
Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green, canary, rolling, draining)
Experience managing programs and/or multiple projects, including simultaneous task assignments.
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all management levels.
Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills
Organized, agile, persistent, and proactive. Ability to work on multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
Ability to learn new technologies quickly, self-starters and motivated, and able to work with others, and communicate effectively.
Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup. Good writing and editing skills, with a strong command of English and an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and lively format.
Able to take personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
Collaborate closely with development teams, ensuring that compute designs align with application requirements.
Stay informed about Azure updates and emerging technologies related to compute workloads.

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