Master Cloud Architect

Description:

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated leader who is passionate about Cloud Platforms and Solutions, customers, and our people too.

• Strong “Technical Knowledge” in Cloud architecture.

• Ability to translate product requirements into architectural designs using well established design patterns and emerging best practices

• Personality and Cultural Alignment to influence right decisions bridging between product management and engineering.

• Super-passionate working with engineering teams and developing out team

• Good “Analytical Thinking” to make majority of right judgement calls

Responsibilities

As the Cloud Platform Principle Architect

You will be responsible for driving product success:

• Subject matter expert in Cloud Architecture and Design patterns.

• Familiarity of Public Cloud services available from primarily AWS and Azure.

• Working directly with Product Managers to define the technical and architectural approach to deliver products to end customers

• Consults on Application architecture and drives cloud native results

• Contributes to governance, optimization and migration with Application Teams migrating or developing Applications on the Public Cloud

• Drive alignment with Cyber Security to protect HPs brand reputation and data

• Financial acumen to help application teams scope cost of proposed Application Architectures and drive optimization to reduce cost

• Partner with DevSecOps to develop tooling and infrastructure for cloud development and cloud operations use cases, with a focus on microservices deployment and distributed systems monitoring and fault analysis.

• Lead security compliance process with GCS to ensure solutions meet all security requirements.

• Define a cloud architecture that best fits HPs need to be flexible and quickly add solutions to the platform in a common manner.

• Create architecture roadmaps, groom backlogs, facilitate with senior leadership

• Define solution metrics

• Track product usage and metrics and suggest/drive course corrections

• Guide technical teams of experts to build the cloud solution with scalability, security, and robustness in mind.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrated mastery with respect to distributed/cloud computing and knowledge in virtualization technologies, cloud infrastructure, cloud solutions, systems/microservice architecture, and design.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, STEM or related discipline or equivalent experience preferred

• Experience in Cloud architecture

• 7+ Years of experience in software industry

• 5+ Years of experience as a software architect, developer, tester, or equivalent is a plus

• Strong user experience/design sense, with a record of building great products.

• Strong organizational as well as written and oral communication skills.

• Understanding of software and cloud design patterns and the ability to communicate to implementing teams

• Subject matter expert on AWS and Azure Cloud services.

• Deep knowledge in modern Cloud technologies include container-based cloud platforms.

• Expert in Cloud native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), databases (SQL and NoSQL), messaging and eventing (RabbitMQ, Kinesis, and similar)

• Strong understanding of optimization techniques to drive optimal cost structures for applications running in the Public Cloud

• Knowledgeable in all facets of compute, network and storage as it relates to Public Cloud Application Architecture

• Security principles, architecture, tools and infrastructure understood to help guide and coach Application Teams with Public Cloud adoption/migration

• Basic Program Management skills – set up meetings, facilitate, assign actions, track/ follow up and report out.