Product Engineering Cloud Architect

About This Role

As a Manager, Cloud Architecture - AAPS, you will lead the definition and design of robust infrastructure solutions, emphasizing scalability, high performance, and secure network architecture. This role involves developing new digital products and executing day-to-day product development activities across design, development, stakeholder communication, technology vendor management, and delivery.

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.
• Take ownership of designing security at both the network and identity levels, ensuring secure access controls and authentication frameworks.
• Manage the cost of infrastructure in the cloud as well as manage budgets and cost forecasting.
• Provide strategic recommendations for business prioritization, roadmaps, and product improvements.
• Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions that include Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Lead project deliverables across multiple workstreams and guide projects with high quality and engineering discipline.
• Practice and enforce Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Mentor others through technical and professional growth.

Requirements

• 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

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, with 5+ years of experience with Azure and 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 and DI Tools like Informatica etc.
• Prior experience with PaaS services; understands 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, as well as cost saving techniques on different clouds
• Prior experience with messaging architectures SOAP and REST with JSON text encoding
• Prior experience with Microsoft SQL Server and other most common backend Microsoft technologies
• Prior experience building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals
• Prior experience automating the provisioning and automation of your architectures and solutions (i.e., 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

Benefits