Cloud Solutions Architect

**MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY**

Leadership & Communication (30%)
- Collaborate with other Architects and Engineers building cloud services.
- Collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices.
- Communicating risk assessments.
- Contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
- Provide technical governance of projects to ensure adherence with standards.
- Provide technical recommendations to senior management.
- Mentor less senior members of the technology teams.

Strategy (20%)
- Provide support for creating centers of excellence for cloud services.
- Make formal and informal technical presentations.
- Lead meetings.
- Establish and develop partnerships with strategic vendors.

Technology (40%)
- Provide analysis and ideas for cost optimization of current workloads
- Establish, enhance and communicate cloud-native architecture and engineering best practices
- Promote benefits of software development utilizing Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Subject matter expert developing an approach and communicating the corresponding benefits of utilizing AWS and/or Azure to business units
- Understand and incorporate security best practices for the cloud, partnering with internal security team.
- Define processes to best utilize people and tools to solve problems.

Financial Responsibility (10%)
- Provide financial analysis for technology decisions.
- Devise strategies and architectures to optimize consumption of cloud resources.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Ability to collaborate with teams across the business to set standards and best practices
- Ability to contribute to, influence, or direct a variety of projects concurrently.
- Ability to learn quickly
- Ability to lead meetings
- Effectively partner with and lead/influence BU project teams (architects and engineers) building cloud services.
- Technical understanding of cloud-native architecture and engineering best practices
- Experience building software following cloud native architecture methodologies
- Extensive expertise working with AWS and/or Azure
- 8+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of relevant cloud experience
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science OR equivalent industry experience

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