Description
AWS Architect Cloud
Next Ventures are executing a search for an experienced AWS architect.
- Engaging with C-level executives to define Enterprise cloud strategies.
- Identifying motivators for cloud adoption and unlocking Enterprise challenges.
- Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility.
- Architecting hybrid AWS and on premise solutions for technology clusters and patterns.
- Establishing shared IT service centers for Cloud operations.
- Cost/Benefit modelling and creating compelling business cases for migration.
- Generating AWS migration roadmaps and driving buy-in across complex organization structures.
- Collaborating with consulting and managed services partners to build and execute migration plans.
- Getting feedback from common Enterprise requirements into AWS service development teams.
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Highly technical and analytical, possessing 10 or more years of IT implementation experience
- Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
- BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background preferred; MS degree desired
- Be mobile and travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 25-50% travel requirement within your region.
- Managing executive Customer relationships and key business stakeholders.
- Delivering IT Strategy & Consulting services
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (eg TOGAF, Zachman) and identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets.
- Enterprise IT management frameworks (eg ITIL v3 processes).
- Broad Enterprise systems experience including SAP, Oracle, MSFT and custom Java/.NET applications.
- Designing, building, and operating global IT infrastructures.
- A proven track record of managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects.
- Familiarity with industry compliance and security standards including PCI DSS, SOC-1&2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GxP and FDA.
Recent cloud based solutions experience is a must. A solid technical background, on premise architecture and consultancy experience will be ideal.
You will be working on enterprise scale projects so excellent stakeholder/vendor management experience will be a strength.
Candidates will have successfully operated as a hands-on Cloud Consultant, ideally in a lead role, on large scale delivery projects - at least one of which will have been a complex, enterprise project or programme.
Leading teams.
Delivering complex, enterprise level infrastructure solutions.
Requirements Analysis using structured techniques (Design Patterns, Use Cases and UML.)
Architecture models of complex systems.
Experience of cloud solutions which support the transformation of business services
Proven vendor management skills, including identification, selection and operational partnership.
Technical background should include IT integration and transformation/migration, including working knowledge of enterprise applications integration, DevOps and automation, open source platforms, SOA Middleware platforms, as well as storage and hosting solutions.
Cloud Architect certification is beneficial.
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