AWS Cloud Architect

Company is a French multinational information technology services and consulting company. It is headquartered in Paris, France.

Position: AWS Cloud Architect
Grade: Leadership Position
Location: Bangalore / Chennai / Hyderabad / Pune / Mumbai.

About the Role/position
This position focuses on defining a modular architecture that can respond to current and future business requirements, business systems, and business processes evolving in the cloud. This position will create and drive strategy and content of multiple cloud service launches and integration models. This individual will influence and lead cross-functional teams to complete projects and major initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to define cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices to set the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption and the resultant migration
• Demonstrate a leadership role in ensuring that new and existing systems are aligned to architectural guidelines
• Assist infrastructure operations team in selecting cloud service providers
• Assess application readiness for cloud technology adoption
• Evaluate and Recommend the SaaS/PaaS/IaaS cloud models that best fit business needs
• Collaborate with enterprise architects in other architectural areas to ensure comprehensive and cohesive working solutions are developed across disciplines
o Economic and technical value proposition for cloud
o Distinctions and tradeoffs among IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, private, hybrid, public cloud
o Distinctions and tradeoffs among market leading cloud providers, orchestration platforms, SDN, and hypervisor solutions
o Strategies and best practices for implementing resilient, scalable, enterprise-class solutions in cloud infrastructures

Qualifications:

• Demonstrable Experience architecting hybrid cloud platforms for medium to large-scale applications
• 15+ years overall IT system architecture, design, development, deployment experience
• Specific Design and Delivery experience with medium-large scale cloud migrations, including application readiness assessment, app and platform remediations, organizational change, and integration into a Service Management framework
• Deep technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as Network, Storage and midrange Compute
• Hands-on Public cloud architecture experience with distributed compute, data and storage technologies

• Technical Expertise:
o Adept with enterprise architecture concepts and terminology (EAI, SOA, ESB, REST, APIs and microservices)
o Relevant experience in large-scale data center architecture/design, middleware architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, and auditing
o Service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services; including service provisioning, product catalog integration, and billing systems integration

• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to generate stakeholder buy-in and lead through influence at a senior management level