Enterprise Cloud Architect
Job description:
- The client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Cloud Architect and Advisor.
- This position is responsible for overseeing the Department’s cloud computing strategy.
- This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
- This position will indirectly lead teams of technologists to advance solutions delivery roadmap, providing guidance and oversight.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate projects from an Enterprise perspective, ensuring alignment with business needs, IT roadmap, architecture and security standards, internal controls, and IT methodology.
- Develop/ Implement Cloud Strategy, Cloud Governance/Principles Framework
- Collaborate with Stakeholders and develop/ Implement Cloud Adoption Framework
- Establish and run the Cloud Advisory Council
- Define standards, process, and community of practice to facilitate cloud computing
- within our organization in support of client business and strategy requirements.
- Leads architectural content across all aspects of architecture in support of IT delivery.
- Provide leadership regarding cloud architecture and the implementation of infrastructure to support the AWS migration of systems.
- Establish and maintain cloud architecture, tools, and processes.
- Contribute to the success of application migration projects by supporting multiple customers with environment support and monitoring of the cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, and AZURE)
- Architect and improve continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes through infrastructure automation.
- Lead cross functional project teams, and workgroups.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders as well as technical leaders within IT and other engineers throughout the organization (product engineering, data/application platforms, etc.)
- Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
- Be the champion for a cloud and security-first mindset and ensure solution follows security guardrails/policies defined by PSO.
- Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends.
- Foster innovation and implement creative out-of-the-box ideas by conducting brainstorming sessions, hackathons and other innovation events and elevate the thinking.
- Assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
- Research and present ideas for the improvement of systems and processes for consideration by project managers
- Provide leadership in adapting existing application architectures to cloud native architectures.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Experience with AWS cloud (IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, LAMBDA) Required 5 Years
- Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability Required 5 Years
- Strong supervision, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills. Required 5 Years
- Demonstrated presentation, training skills, oral and written communication skills. Required
- Ability to communicate effectively at all job levels, use excellent evaluation skills, and ability to relay information in legible reports as required Required 5 Years
- Experience with AWS cloud services API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElastiCache Required 5 Years
- Experience with Cloud technologies & SaaS applications running on Cloud Highly desired
- Strong experience with Cloud migrations/DevSecOps and implementations. Highly desired
- Experience leading organizations through major change initiatives Required 5 Years
- AWS Cloud Certified Required
- Experience with implementing one or more RPA technologies. Highly desired
- Experience collaborating with Federal, State and Local Government Desired
- Experience managing implementation of a statewide IT project Desired
- Experience in establishing and implementing governance model for the Cloud Migration and transformation efforts across programs Highly desired
- Experience in IT and stakeholder relationship management Required 5 Years
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