Senior Azure Cloud Solutions Architect (Infrastructure)

Job Description:

As the Senior Cloud Solutions Architect (Infrastructure), you will play a strategic and technical role responsible for ensuring the Fisher Investments Cloud components including adoption of cloud computing principles. You will oversee adoption of public cloud services and support creation of sustainable/fit for purpose infrastructure architecture in consideration of Fisher Investments standards and information security controls and guidelines.

Your Qualifications:

•   10 years of designing and building complex enterprise-scale software applications or platforms 
•   5 years of experience serving as technical lead for software architecture design 
•   5 years of experience defining architectural tradeoffs and communicating architectural decisions to all stakeholders 
•   5 years of experience using distributed systems and microservice architectures including applying data distribution strategies 
•   5 years of experience working with teams and communicating with both internal and external stakeholders 
•   3 years of experience building scalable and reliable solutions 
•   Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field 

The Day-to-Day:

•   Design, engineer and lead the architecture and implementation of cloud solutions with appropriate technologies and capabilities to meet our requirements 
•   Understand in-depth the cloud technology trends, the latest new ideas, options and solutions available on how to evolve the capabilities and use within the firm to address the evolving operating model 
•   Investigate and monitor the current-state cloud usage solutions in use to identify gaps, limitations and come up with the required solutions and remediations 
•   Implement cloud platform services that are scalable, available, fault-tolerant, with multi-region deployment models 
•   Lead creation of cloud-focused standards, building blocks and patterns to insure deployed solutions are secure, scalable, and resilient 
•   Work with other enterprise architects, application architects and security architects to provide a solid and secure IaaS and PaaS platform in Azure 
•   Ensure cloud solutions are implemented and delivered with best practices, appropriate controls and documentation 
•   Lead and provide expertise on cloud solutions and knowledge transfer and mentoring other team members