Senior Cloud Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop and Implement cloud migration, modernization, and multi-cloud acumen to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that solve customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• Serve as a technical expert in AWS, supporting customers with complex commercial and technical challenges
• Lead cross-functional, cross-organization initiatives that drive thought leadership on multi-cloud and AWS migration scenarios.
• Broad technology experience across AWS cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, cloud migrations, or IT transformations.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze problems, develop actionable tactical plans quickly, up-level the insights to strategy.
• Demonstrated ability as a "trusted advisor" to customers. Able to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives, as well as easily interact and give guidance to software developers, IT operations staff, and system architects.
• Assists GTA and State agencies with architectural decisions and design to optimize applications for cost and performance
• Review and evaluate existing systems architectures and software products to identify cloud platforming and refactoring opportunities
• Reviews and provides input to the development of standards.
• Builds relationships, communicates office goals.

QUALIFICATIONS:
• 10+ years of overall experience, to include a minimum of 5 years of enterprise, full-life cycle in Architecture in the professional IT/Software Development services industry
• 5-8 years of hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience
• 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects).
• Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications to operate in Cloud environment.
• Broad knowledge of various IT domains, including applications, data, infrastructure, and security
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and best practices.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards .
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation