Cloud Architect

Context of the mission

The Cloud Architect is a technical, customer facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience. The Cloud Architect owns the Azure technical customer engagement including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and Proof-Of-Concepts.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience in deep technical architecture and application design discussions with senior customer executives to drive cloud deployment, transitioning and re-platforming of application workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Responsibilities of the CLoud Architect

- Lead assessments with the customer on Azure architecture.
- Azure subject matter expert using Microsoft technology to solve business problems and add business value for the customer
- Execute quick technical feasibility and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Microsoft Azure.
- Build technical architecture in Azure for selected applications and workloads using Azure automation capabilities.
- Lead a migration approach to migrate existing workloads to Azure or architect a green field platform for new applications.
- Ensure plan execution according to agreed timescales and quality
- Execute limited Proof of Concepts.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of specified specialists areas, according to product roadmap.
- Document and share technical best practices and insights with product management.

Profile of the Cloud Architect

- 5+years of experience working on highly complex projects in cloud environments.
- Deep hands-on technical experience in the following areas:

Systems Operations/Management
Software Design or Development
DevOps Processes and Tooling
Enterprise Strategy
Cloud Infrastructure (Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Database)
Security & Compliance

- Proven experience of design and implementation of distributed applications
- Proven experience in migrating on-premises application workloads to the cloud
- Experience with CSP model