Cloud Architect

Global Business Ser. 4u; Buffalo (NY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Business Ser. 4u seeks a senior cloud architect to own and advance the architecture of a cloud-based PaaS, with hands-on development across frameworks and components. You will partner with tech teams to deliver end-to-end solutions, emphasizing high availability, performance, and scalable analytics.

You’ll guide enterprise roadmaps, conduct POCs, and drive modernization efforts across platforms, while aligning with business goals and risk management practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Solid architectural experience in building Cloud based Platform as a Service that is Cloud Infrastructure provider agnostic.
• 5+ years of in-depth experience in setting environment to deploy services on public cloud.
• 2+ years of experience in using Kubernetes or other deployment orchestrator.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture for cloud-based PaaS platforms.
• Develop architectures enabling high availability, performance, and analytics capabilities.
• Act as technical consultant, partnering with groups to craft end-to-end solution architecture.
• Collaborate to define technology roadmaps aligned with product area goals.
• Plan innovation and roadmap activities for applications within business functions.
• Oversee risk analysis and mitigation across asset management, security, and infrastructure domains.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Cloud platforms

Agile methodologies

Security & infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / CS or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft technologies

Azure cloud

Job description

Location: Buffalo, NY – Remote

Duration: 6 Month – Contract to Hire (CTH)

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications
• Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities
• Be a technical consultant for application project teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains
• Collaborates with other enterprise architects to define technology roadmap and ensures alignment to product area roadmap
• Conducts innovation and roadmap planning for applications within the business functions of the portfolio
• Oversees IT application risk analysis and mitigation planning incorporating Asset Management, Security, and Infrastructure domain input into mitigation plans for Experience team portfolios
• Identify and Plan projects for application modernization program to reduce legacy platform dependence and technical debt
• Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value and formalize it as enterprise standards and build reference architectures
• Establishes and owns the end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development) to drive roadmaps, desired technologies, and target state architectures across the portfolio (Reduce technology debt, duplication, and silos)
• Communicate key business benefits and implications of technology decisions and outcomes to business portfolio leaders and senior executive management
• Works with business and technology delivery leaders to align architecture roadmaps with business strategy and technology delivery plans
• Proven abilities to work in multiple Cloud platforms and proven record of handling multi-million project initiatives
  
  

Location: Buffalo, NY – Remote

Duration: 6 Month – Contract to Hire (CTH)

Key Accountabilities/Outcomes

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications
• Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities
• Be a technical consultant for application project teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains
• Collaborates with other enterprise architects to define technology roadmap and ensures alignment to product area roadmap
• Conducts innovation and roadmap planning for applications within the business functions of the portfolio
• Oversees IT application risk analysis and mitigation planning incorporating Asset Management, Security, and Infrastructure domain input into mitigation plans for Experience team portfolios
• Identify and Plan projects for application modernization program to reduce legacy platform dependence and technical debt
• Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value and formalize it as enterprise standards and build reference architectures
• Establishes and owns the end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development) to drive roadmaps, desired technologies, and target state architectures across the portfolio (Reduce technology debt, duplication, and silos)
• Communicate key business benefits and implications of technology decisions and outcomes to business portfolio leaders and senior executive management
• Works with business and technology delivery leaders to align architecture roadmaps with business strategy and technology delivery plans
• Proven abilities to work in multiple Cloud platforms and proven record of handling multi-million project initiatives
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Solid architectural experience in building Cloud based Platform as a Service that is Cloud Infrastructure provider agnostic
• 5+ years of in-depth experience in setting environment to deploy services on public cloud
• 2+ years of experience in using Kubernetes or other deployment orchestrator and management mechanisms.
• Build CI/CD processes and pipelines to enable 1-click and self-managed deployments.
• Experience with big data systems, analytics, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture
• Experience with design/architecting large-scale distributed systems preferably using Microsoft technologies
• Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, Cloud Patterns, Dependency injection, Event sourcing, etc.).
• Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience and recovery, etc.).
• Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.
• Understanding of features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform (Security, Firewalls, RedisCache, Key Vault, Service Bus, ASR, Networking, OMS, Blob Storage, Resource Groups, NSG, Application Insights, SQL Server, Sql DB, Load-Balancers & Azure HCI) is preferred.
• Cloud Architecture, Delivery, and Maintenance
• Create positive impacts to the Organization
• Communicate and Influence business partners
• Experience with agile development methodologies is a plus.