Manager, Cloud Architecture - AAPS

About This Role

The Cloud Architect will lead the definition, design, and implementation of robust, scalable, high-performance, and secure infrastructure solutions for new digital products, primarily focusing on Azure. This role involves partnering with security teams, managing cloud costs, and driving product improvements while mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and design of robust infrastructure solutions, prioritizing scalability, high performance, and secure network architecture.
• Partner closely with Cyber and Security teams to embed security controls within all infrastructure designs.
• Develop proof-of-concepts to showcase the feasibility of innovative ideas and infrastructure advancements and adoption of new services.
• Take ownership of designing security at both the network and identity levels, ensuring secure access controls and authentication frameworks.
• Manage cloud infrastructure costs, forecasting budgets, and driving cost-effective solutions.
• Drive recommendations for business prioritization, roadmaps, and product improvements.
• Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions, with a focus on Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion DevOps practices for continuous delivery and self-healing systems.
• Lead project deliverables across multiple workstreams and guide projects with high quality and engineering discipline.
• Promote and uphold Agile and Scrum methodologies in development processes.
• Mentor others through technical and professional growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or equivalent
• 6+ years of experience in OOD, UML, stateless distributed architectures
• 6+ years of experience designing for scalability and performance, especially with .Net, HTML5/CSS3, WCF technologies
• 5+ years of experience with Azure, designing and delivering high-volume, highly scalable, and performant solutions on large-scale globally distributed systems
• 1+ year leadership/management experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience within Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), stateless distributed architectures, and designing for scalability and performance, especially within, .Net, HTML5/CSS3, and WCF technologies. 5+ years of experience with Azure with a proven record of designing and delivering high-volume, highly scalable, and performant solutions on large-scale globally distributed systems. Minimum 1 year leadership/management experience.

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of experience with AWS or other cloud providers
• Prior experience and exposure to BI Tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Qliksense
• Prior experience and exposure to DI Tools like Informatica
• Prior experience with PaaS services, leading practices and adoption patterns
• Prior experience with IaaS, such as Microsoft SQL Server and database administration (e.g., Always On)
• Prior experience with networking, firewalls, load-balancers in Azure and on-premise
• Prior experience analyzing and manipulating data on Excel or similar tools
• Prior experience of cost management on Azure or on any CSP, and cost saving techniques
• Prior experience with messaging architectures SOAP and REST with JSON text encoding
• Prior experience with Microsoft SQL Server and other common backend Microsoft technologies
• Prior experience building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals
• Prior experience automating the provisioning and automation of architectures and solutions (Infrastructure-as-Code)
• Prior experience and understanding of event-driven and delegate-based design paradigms
• Prior experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms
• Prior experience in developing of IT architecture plans and software development methodologies

Skills

* Required skills