Summary
Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect works with MKS Teams, IT, Cloud, and business stakeholders to effectively create an Enterprise Architecture framework. Develops a cloud first strategy that aims to enhance business value and acquire new opportunities. Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand and create an Enterprise Architecture framework with focus on Cloud Services.
- Develop and maintains the cloud strategy, discovering business and use cases within MKS
- Promote, negotiate, and deliver solutions in Cloud migration and Cloud based projects.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud platform.
- Create cloud-based solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, IAM, etc.
- Work with stakeholders to support existing and new Cloud solutions
- Keep up to date with market and trends and evaluate new business / IT opportunities for the organisation.
- Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders to identify internal opportunities that bring value to the company.
- Design policies and guidelines related to cloud architecture
- Create operational documentation for cloud solutions
- Participate to architectural board, negotiating and evaluating opportunities for the business and IT.
- Coach, train, and mentor internal and external engineers to follow IT Architecture.
- Develop and maintain the Architecture Repository
- Develop a business continuity model
Experience & Education
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Computing or other relevant disciplines (Master´s preferred, otherwise longer work experience)More than 10 years of experience in progressive infrastructure / software engineering / IT business domainExperience of working on cloud infrastructure and solutions (possibly AWS)Strong systems thinking, pragmatic and creative problem solving and analytical skills.IT Architecture certification (e.g., Togaf).Infrastructure Security experienceKnowledge of Cloud best practices and guidelines.Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.Proactive team player who is ready to learn, help and enjoys working with their teammates.Desirable
Experience (certification) with Project Management / Agile development methodologies.Business experiences or economic studies (MBA, Business School etc.)Quality management certifications (such as Lean or Six Sigma).Experience working for large scale enterprise applications.AWS or Terraform certification would be added advantage.DevOps framework experienceOrchestration frameworks : Docker, Kubernetes.Relational, non-relational database knowledgeExperience in Configuration management : GIT, GITHUB, Codecommit.