Lead Cloud Architect

• Define enterprise cloud strategies with architecture assessments and migration focused analysis
  
• Definition of migration strategies and wave plans
  
• Create high level cloud platform architecture and design
  
• Review and approve detailed designs produced by the team
  
• Provide technical leadership for platform design automated build and/ or migration of workloads
  

• End to end technical accountability towards successful delivery of the engagement
  
• Work closely with our clients program and project manager(s) technical staff and other IT stakeholders
  
• Translate complex functional technical and business requirements into architectural designs
  
• Produce architecture and highlevel designs and defend the solution design decisions
  
• Application and infrastructure assessments towards developing an automated build and migration strategy
  
• Evaluate project requirements and determine actionable tasks with delivery estimates based on solution architecture approach
  
• Provide strong leadership thinking and technical guidance to assessment planning migration and build teams
  
• Review and approve detailed design documentation produced build and migration teams
  
• Identify dependencies and common infrastructure components and to assess migration feasibility
  
• Validate automated infrastructure level test plans and their execution
  
• Obtain signoff from our client for the agreed design build and migration deliverables
  
• Work with our client s IT stakeholders to ensure that the ITSM process are executed to support the Day 2 build and migration activities
  
• Validate operational readiness and ensure production acceptance criteria are met for smooth transition to support teams (BAU)
  
• Validate and review handover documentation to delivery / support (BAU) teams and conduct transition KT handover workshops
  

• Contribute to solution and offering development within Cloud practice
  
• Deliver proofofconcepts for innovative solutions
  
• Extend support to sales and presales teams by recommending fit for purpose solutions during RFI RFP processes
  
• Support various organization wide learning and development activities by providing technical mentorship to team members
  

Requirements

• Expert level handson working knowledge on atleast one of the cloud platforms AWS Azure GCP VMware or Azure Stack with intermediate architecture knowledge on the second and fundamental coverage of the rest
  
• Led and successfully delivered atleast one end to end large scale enterprise cloud architecture design build or migration project with multi tier applications
  
• Broad skill spectrum covering Hybrid Cloud based IaaS and PaaS platforms with experience in designing for cloud native containerbased environment deployment (Docker Kubernetes AKS EKS GKE)
  
• Good handson experience with CI/ CD automation tools preferably cloud agnostic Terraform Ansible Jenkins.
  
• Thorough understanding of assessment methodologies to develop fit for purpose enterprise cloud strategy
  
• Strong foundation across operating systems and core infrastructure tools Active Directory DNS
  
• Demonstrable architectural breadth across other infrastructure domains Cloud networking storage backup databases and cybersecurity
  

• Cloud migration tools native or 3rd party
  
• Cloud native experience around serverless event meshes and NoSQL databases
  
• Experience of working in an Agile project delivery
  
• Relevant expert level cloud or architecture certifications
  

• Should have a exemplary verbal and presentation skills
  
• Excellent written skills are required for solution architecture documentation
  
• Able to present and communicate technical designs and solutions to peers and CXO level stakeholders
  
• Interact clearly with client onshore and offshore project teams
  
• Willingness to work on multiple technologies
  
• A background of infrastructure design engineering and deployment experience in an outsourced service industry
  

• Define enterprise cloud strategies with architecture assessments and migration focused analysis
  
• Definition of migration strategies and wave plans
  
• Create high level cloud platform architecture and design
  
• Review and approve detailed designs produced by the team
  
• Provide technical leadership for platform design, automated build and/ or migration of workloads
  

• End to end technical accountability towards successful delivery of the engagement
  
• Work closely with our clients, program and project manager(s), technical staff and other IT stakeholders
  
• Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs
  
• Produce architecture and high-level designs and defend the solution design decisions
  
• Application and infrastructure assessments towards developing an automated build and migration strategy
  
• Evaluate project requirements and determine actionable tasks with delivery estimates based on solution architecture approach
  
• Provide strong leadership thinking and technical guidance to assessment, planning, migration and build teams
  
• Review and approve detailed design documentation produced build and migration teams
  
• Identify dependencies and common infrastructure components, and to assess migration feasibility
  
• Validate automated infrastructure level test plans and their execution
  
• Obtain sign-off from our client for the agreed design, build and migration deliverables
  
• Work with our client s IT stakeholders to ensure that the ITSM process are executed to support the Day 2 build and migration activities
  
• Validate operational readiness and ensure production acceptance criteria are met for smooth transition to support teams (BAU)
  
• Validate and review handover documentation to delivery / support (BAU) teams and conduct transition, KT, handover workshops
  

• Contribute to solution and offering development within Cloud practice
  
• Deliver proof-of-concepts for innovative solutions
  
• Extend support to sales and pre-sales teams by recommending fit for purpose solutions during RFI, RFP processes
  
• Support various organization wide learning and development activities by providing technical mentorship to team members
  

Requirements

• Expert level hands-on working knowledge on atleast one of the cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware or Azure Stack with intermediate architecture knowledge on the second and fundamental coverage of the rest
  
• Led and successfully delivered atleast one end to end large scale enterprise cloud architecture, design, build or migration project with multi tier applications
  
• Broad skill spectrum covering Hybrid Cloud based IaaS and PaaS platforms with experience in designing for cloud native container-based environment deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE)
  
• Good hands-on experience with CI/ CD automation tools, preferably cloud agnostic Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins.
  
• Thorough understanding of assessment methodologies to develop fit for purpose enterprise cloud strategy
  
• Strong foundation across operating systems and core infrastructure tools Active Directory, DNS
  
• Demonstrable architectural breadth across other infrastructure domains Cloud networking, storage, backup, databases and cybersecurity
  

• Cloud migration tools native or 3rd party
  
• Cloud native experience around serverless, event meshes and NoSQL databases
  
• Experience of working in an Agile project delivery
  
• Relevant expert level cloud or architecture certifications
  

• Should have a exemplary verbal and presentation skills
  
• Excellent written skills are required for solution architecture documentation
  
• Able to present and communicate technical designs and solutions to peers and CXO level stakeholders
  
• Interact clearly with client, on-shore and offshore project teams
  
• Willingness to work on multiple technologies
  
• A background of infrastructure design engineering and deployment experience in an outsourced service industry