Strategic Cloud Architect

A job that requires strategic thinking and technical expertise.

• Reports to: Senior Leader - Head of Enterprise Computing
• Supervises: Cloud operation teams, DevOps team and other cross-functional project teams

Job Dimensions:

• Geographic Area Covered: Pan India
• Stakeholders: Internal - All Departments, External - Cloud partners, Implementation Partners, Regulators

Key Result Areas:

• Ensure business solution meets customer requirements and adheres to established standards
• Assist strategic project team on technical and functional areas
• Identify reusable components to create a service catalog that can be leveraged to accelerate solution delivery
• Identify areas of improvement & ensure application architecture as per current standards and technology innovations are in place
• DevOps tools implementation for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Capacity Management and Emerging technologies Proof-of-Concept (POC)
• Act as interface between Business & delivery team on business solution, effort estimation, capacity planning, design patterns to be adhered
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security)
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements
• Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders
• Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems
• Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications
• Software Design:
  • Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology
  • Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements
  • Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Recommends designs which consider target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems
  • Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs
  • Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software
  • Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods
  • Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing
  • Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress
  • Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured
  • Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build
  • Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system
  • Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools
  • Analyse Process and systems to mitigate risk and provide solutions for non-stated functional requirements
  • Ensure all IT design and architecture risks are managed
  • Guide extended team in sequencing the project deliverables to ensure all the building blocks fit in properly with no rework and surprises
  • Review provided technical, integration, database design artifacts and source code if required
  • Mentor to the application development team on appropriate use of architecture, Java / J2EE and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design patterns
  • Mentoring the team on technical and business-related areas
  • Help in coordination between different verticals of IT / Data Centre Team
  • Ensure compliance to regulatory rules and standards
  • Constantly align with the IT team, Vendor team and business stakeholder