Main Purpose
The Solution Architect (Cloud) will be responsible for planning, maintaining and designing cloud solutions. He/she will have to translate business requirements into proposed architectural solutions across business units and business processes.
Responsible for formulating the future cloud state architecture for a particular initiative and for providing a high level roadmap for the implementation of the cloud solution architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Solutions
- Accountable for the creation of cloud architecture solutions to meet business requirements, in line with the IT strategy and architecture. Business requirements to be provided by the business analysis team.
- Collaborate and support the development of the cloud strategy and plan.
- Ensure that the outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original cloud solution specified by IT e.g. supports the project manager to resolve technical issues during build.
- Work with the vendors, business analysts and system analysts to design cloud solutions
- Manage the relationship with our Cloud MSP and direction of our cloud strategy.
Subject matter Expertise
- Provide ad-hoc consultancy as required to senior business stakeholders on matters relating to cloud solutions.
- This will involve provide specific content knowledge of WFS solution components. Although detailed SME input will be provided by vendors the Cloud Solution Architect with be required to co-ordinate this activity.
- Adding clarity to business requirements; challenging business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created.
- Thinking outside of the box to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request.
- Advising on supplier and cost options, and ensuring that the validity of the overall solution is fully represented and considered in any RFI/RFP process, or in the creation and evaluation of proof of concept solutions.
Methodology and Quality Assurance
- Work with the Architecture Review Board to consult on the quality of the IT business solution and architectural soundness of the design.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve and streamline cloud business solutions
- Management of the Cloud Centre of Excellence with the focus on architecture governance.
Requirements
- Strong architecture skills (TOGAF, UML, Archimate)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Knowledge of one or more cloud programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
- AWS: Control Tower, Organizations, Landing Zone, Security Tooling (AWS Securityhub, AWS Inspector, AWS Guarduty, AWS Detective, NGFW’s)
- AWS Identity and Access Management: Candidate needs to illustrate his/her understanding of the IAM Policy evaluation logic
- AWS VPC: Hub and Spoke Design with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-To-Site VPN, AWS Client VPN, Security Groups
- AWS Resource Access Manager
- Network routing and DNS management, Route Tables, S2S and Direct Connect, etc.
- Monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK Stack, Prometheus, etc.
- Strong UML skills
- Working within both Agile and traditional waterfall environments
- Analysis and design
- Broad general IT knowledge.
- Good knowledge of traditional infrastructure and shifting toward cloud.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION
- Computer Science/Information Systems/Mathematics/Engineering degree
- TOGAF certification
- AWS/Azure certifications beneficial
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- 10 years IT experience
- 5 Years of solid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- At least two years as a cloud architect
