Azure Cloud Architect
Job Description
Level 4
Job Description:
Position Description:
We are looking for an Azure Cloud architect who will contribute to creating our technology vision and work closely with software delivery teams to execute that vision. You will be a subject matter expert for 5-10 projects, all using a similar vision, rather than deeply embedded with a single team.
Responsibilities:
– Responsible for developing cloud architecture patterns for Azure and submitting to the divisional Architecture repository.
– Educating project teams on the Azure technology options, benefits, costs etc.
– Working with central centers of excellence (Cloud, Data, Security etc) to develop best practice and blueprints.
– Discover and incorporate new Azure or Open-Source technology choices into our Cloud Service Catalogue.
– Documentation of Cloud architectures and Architecture Decision Records.
– Weekly coordination with the Cloud Project team to qualify new requests.
Required Skills:
– 10+ years of experience architecting reporting or client facing solutions, ideally within Financial Services or similar industry.
– Deep expertise in the Azure technologies: how they have evolved over time and will continue to evolve in the future.
– Excellent communication skills.
– Solid understanding (ideally hands-on experience) with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, especially in the context of Azure.
– Deep expertise in architecting for resiliency: availability zones, regions, data replication.
– Understanding of Architecture methodology (either from a consulting organization or from within a team that follows a structured Architecture process).
Nice to have:
– Experience working with Kubernetes (Azure (AKS) or similar).
– Experience working with Kafka and/or Event Bus type architectures.
– Experience working with Snowflake or other Cloud based Data Platforms.
– Experience coding with Java Spring.
– Experience of building cost models and proactively exploring opportunities to reduce cost in Cloud (Serverless vs Always On, different service tiers etc).
