Enterprise Cloud Architect and Advisory

Job Description : Responsibilities :

Responsibilities :

• Evaluate projects from an Enterprise perspective, ensuring alignment with business needs, IT roadmap, architecture and security standards, internal controls, and IT methodology.
• Develop / Implement Cloud Strategy, Cloud Governance / Principles Framework.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders and develop / Implement a Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Establish and run the Cloud Advisory Council.
• Define standards, processes, and community of practice to facilitate cloud computing within our organization in support of client business and strategy requirements.
• Leads architectural content across all aspects of architecture in support of IT delivery.
• Provide leadership regarding cloud architecture and the implementation of infrastructure to support the AWS migration of systems.
• Establish and maintain cloud architecture, tools, and processes.
• Contribute to the success of application migration projects by supporting multiple customers with environment support and monitoring of the cloud environments (e.

g., AWS, GCP, and AZURE).

• Architect and improve continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI / CD) tools and processes through infrastructure automation.
• Lead cross-functional project teams and workgroups.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders as well as technical leaders within IT and other engineers throughout the organization (product engineering, data / application platforms, etc.).
• Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
• Be the champion for a cloud and security-first mindset and ensure the solution follows client security guardrails / policies defined by PSO.
• Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health Trends.
• Foster innovation and implement creative out-of-the-box ideas by conducting brainstorming sessions, hackathons, and other innovation events and elevate the thinking.
• Assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Research and present ideas for the improvement of systems and processes for consideration by project managers.
• Provide leadership in adapting existing application architectures to cloud-native architectures.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities / Competencies :

• Knowledge of AWS RDS, Aurora, Lambda, NoSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, and other datastore cloud surrounding technologies.
• Knowledge of UNIX (Linux) and Windows Server environment and scripting (bash, shell, Python, etc).
• Knowledge and Hands-on implementation experience on the AWS Networking components.
• Active status as an AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional preferred).
• TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework Certification (Professional preferred).
• Track record of evaluating plans to identify risk, ensure alignment of goals, plans, and priorities across teams and functions, and meet commitments;

ability to create clarity about what success looks like and inspire velocity in self and others to achieve results that accelerate functional impact.

• Capable of stepping up to address difficult issues and saying what needs to be said.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of data security and compliance controls.
• Demonstrated knowledge of advanced automation (bots, AI, low-code platforms).
• Familiar with Microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure, and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
• Management prefers applicants with the following.
• Experience collaborating with State and Local Government.
• Experience in complex, cross-functional team environments.

Education and Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Management, Engineering, or another related discipline.
• 10+ years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud (IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, LAMBDA, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElastiCache).
• 5+ years of experience leading organizations through major change initiatives.
• 7+ years of experience in IT and stakeholder relationship management.
30+ days ago