Cloud Architect

Summary:

Architects collaborate with customers, business analysts, designers, and software developers to analyze, plan, design, and deliver innovative cloud-based solutions to complex, high-value business problems. The ideal candidate will have experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise cloud guidelines and enforce enterprise development standards and practices.

• Map project business requirements to cloud systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with enterprise architectural plans and industry best practices.

• Define and develop the emerging cloud solution architectures and ensure that the team is successful within the technical framework.

• Lead, direct, and produce technical cloud designs/architectures at a project, product, and program level with proficiency in the areas of disaster recovery, data integrity, service continuity, component redundancy, security, etc.

• Participate in and lead high and low-level cloud technology discussions with management, vendors, and customers.

• Provide technical leadership to build consensus among stakeholders around proposed cloud designs.

• Within the agreed-upon cloud application architecture, produce technology solutions to assist the business in meeting their objectives.

• Ensure cloud solutions and new features are designed and implemented according to established design and architectural standards and practices (and, where necessary, facilitate acceptable tradeoffs)

• Review and analyze detailed business requirements; assist in prioritization and scoping of user stories to align customer expectations with current or future cloud capabilities.

• Develop, test, and implement cloud technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and to agreed-upon timeframes.

• Lead software developers in cloud application design and patterns… Providing reference applications/architectures when possible.

• Research new cloud technologies and best practices for approaching and implementing emerging technologies and techniques.

• As needed, work as part of the development team, providing technical guidance and direction with examples, POCs, and prototypes

• Research, learn, and provide guidance on preexisting legacy cloud technologies, systems, and techniques.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar required, master's degree preferred

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in cloud architecture/design with background in software development required.

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in information technologies required.

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in Java, Linux, and Oracle required.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure preferred, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Any eCommerce platform experience preferred - like ATG/Hybris

• Any experience with search engine technology like Elastic, SOLR or Endeca is preferred.

• A systems thinker, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detail-oriented implementation, open minded to new ideas, approaches, and technologies.

• A data and fact-driven decision maker, with an ability to make quick decisions under uncertainty when necessary; able to quickly learn new technologies and tools.

• A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies - new and legacy

• Deep knowledge around the selection and defining of appropriate data model strategies within traditional RDBMS, NoSQL, and Graph database technologies.

• Experience designing large-scale solutions that were deployed to cloud providers (e.g. PCF, GCP) and integrated capabilities specific to those platforms.

• Experience designing, implementing, and deploying large-scale, highly available, service-based software systems (e.g., REST, micro-services), especially extensible platforms that support ecosystems of third-party application/plugin developers

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people.

• Extensive experience with all aspects of Java and the Spring framework.