Azure Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Lead the planning design and engineering of enterpriselevel infrastructure and platforms related to cloud computing while mitigating the risk to IT systems and applications from the use of cloudbased SaaS PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure public and private cloud solutions are optimized for both cost and functionality while using a security first approach.
Drive the design and execution of cloud migration strategy automating existing cloud workloads in cloud provide services to port existing workloads to leverage cloud benefits.
Responsible for providing advanced consulting and guidance at the most complex level of portfolio architecture. An incumbent in this position performs in an expert capacity possesses a highly differentiated or specialized skill critical to the business and provides guidance to other Architects IT employees or business partners.
Drive the technology strategy software solution architecture and solution pattern development and application to deliver high impact timely solutions to the business.
Apply expert/advanced level knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and understand how the solution architecture layers (hardware operating system database network business rules user interface etc.) impact the solution design and user experience to deliver high quality solutions to the business. Due to the speed of technological change and evolving business needs this role will have to adapt to a high degree of change.

Framework General Profile and Scope
Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise.
May lead teams or projects with high resource requirements risk and/or complexity.
Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
Solves complex problems taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions where change is needed.
Works independently with guidance in only the most complex situations.
May lead functional teams or projects.

Job Responsibilities:
General Engineering (50%)
Responsible for providing advanced consulting and guidance at the most complex level of portfolio architecture. An incumbent in this position performs in an expert capacity possesses a highly differentiated or specialized skill critical to the business and provides guidance to other Architects IT employees or business partners.
Drive how to build solutions optimizing techniques and methods for development speed and consistency by applying knowledge of the business unit industry standards technical architecture and emerging technologies.
Work with Engineers to design solutions to todays security exposures in the Enterprise Service Provider and Fintech space including configuring backups and recovery service vaults and creating a 24/7 monitoring platform using Splunk Data Dog Log Analytics etc.