In partnership with other leaders in the firm, you will focus on delivering cloud solutions using mainly AWS and, as a key member of Architecture group, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on AWS cloud

You will be responsible for

• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
• Be well versed in Amazon Web Services cloud solution, architecture, related technologies and their interdependencies
• Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities and analyse findings to provide appropriate cloud solution recommendations and adoption strategy
• Create the conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-based solutions for infrastructure and platforms
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the public cloud solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to public cloud customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, delivery teams and support.
• Apply proven multidisciplinary techniques and tools to address key issues, including: aligning business and IT strategies and architectures, managing complex business IT transformations, optimising IT performance/value and managing IT costs, in the context of appropriately managing risk and achieving business results.
• Assist our clients in establishing and implementing a vision, road map and governance to address today’s business needs and support future growth.
• Identify where our clients can leverage IT for greatest strategic impact, defining a target IT architecture that supports business requirements and reduces costs.
• Bridge the gap between the business and technology, articulating the business value of technology as an enabler, and the considerations concerning effective IT delivery management practices

• Hands-on work experience with large-scale implementations of AWS Cloud solutions. Experience in other platforms such as Azure or GCP would be a plus.
• 5+ 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
• 2+ years project experience migrating and deploying AWS cloud based solutions (ideally in GCP and Azure as well)
• 2+ years architecting, implementing and supporting Amazon Web Services infrastructure and topologies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Certified as a Solutions Architect in AWS, additional certifications in Azure and GCP would  be ideal
• Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud.
• Experience with distributed computing, cloud security, IaaS & PaaS architectures, knowledge of big data/analytics, ci/cd, DevOps, SRE and networking concepts.
• Proven experience as a successful senior engineer and/or cloud engineer highly desirable
• Container experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management, user and system authentication methods and certificates, tokens and certificate management
• Understanding of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
• Demonstrated skills in leadership, communication, coaching, analysis, problem solving and short term and long term planning.
• Experienced, persuasive and effective presenter, both written and verbal.
• Experience leading high performance, results driven teams with a focus on client satisfaction.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple initiatives and rapidly changing priorities.
• Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.