Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ experience in a senior management position directing complex large-scale technology programs and projects.
• 7+ years’ experience providing leadership and expertise during planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for enterprise level programs and projects. 
• Experience directing teams of architects, programmers, analysts, and testers in a variety of small to large-scale projects.
• 10+ years’ experience developing strategic and tactical goals and objectives and long-range roadmaps for mission-critical systems, including cloud technologies, and the necessary standards and processes to support these goals and objectives.
• Private as well as public-sector experience, preferably in state government.
• Strong system analysis skills, experienced across the complete project lifecycle.
• Familiarity with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based service delivery methodologies.
• Experience with cloud solutioning and migration projects.
• Experience managing programs and projects in an environment involving multiple datacenters: in-house datacenter, colocation datacenter, hosted datacenter, Software as a Service, and cloud datacenter.
• Experience with migration of applications to the cloud.
• Strong communications skills, having the ability to communicate well with all levels of staff -- both technical staff and executive management.
• 7+ years of vendor management experience.
• Experience developing consensus with disparate groups, sometimes with competing agenda.
• Experience developing enterprise technical policies for management consideration.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience leading teams of technical experts and establishing a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Experience performing program cost and procurement management functions.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to determine return on investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for both basic and enhanced functional requirements.
•   Experience managing high visibility programs or project portfolios with multimillion dollar budgets.