Senior Cloud Software Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee team members to discuss current projects, workload and activities; prioritizes resources accordingly.
• Improve workload management by supporting others in setting priorities and by postponing less relevant work.
• Strategically focus self and others on top priorities; effectively manages overlapping timelines and competing demands.
• Persuade others by supporting ideas with logical arguments/data, recognizing what information to share and when to share it; builds support to resolve issues and achieve the most favorable outcome for the company.
• Engage in discussion in more complex situations to help others arrange agreements and ensure maximum value and sustainability for all parties.
• Use understanding of the potential outcomes for both parties to create win-win solutions that identify alternatives to meet each party’s needs.
• Creatively develop tools, visual aids and other original content to support the understanding/education of complex and technical information (e.g., legal, operational risk, and regulatory data).
• Guide others on the best practices and approaches for creating clear, concise and organized communication materials to convey technical concepts in a user-friendly way.
• Challenge others to bring fresh and creative perspective to differentiating technical communications and ensuring comprehension and ease-of-use for various audiences.
• Exceeds customers’ expectations by listening for unexpressed needs; connects customer needs to relevant service offerings and new technology.
• Lead others in resolving technical issues in a timely manner; follows up with customers to ensure satisfaction.
• Partner with the business to integrate new technologies into business solutions; creates and communicates a vision of the technology requirements for the future state of the business.
• Prioritize workload and ensures that deadlines are successfully met; delegates or seeks additional staff when necessary.
• Identify short- and long-term barriers to completing project plans and takes corrective action to meet deliverable objectives.
• Manage multifaceted projects or assignments, such as projects that have several separate components, with minimal error and without missing important deliverables.
• Provide guidance and expertise to analyze data and patterns and assess the root cause of complex, non-routine problems.
• Collaborate with others across disciplines to brainstorm and execute solutions to the most complex, uncommon problems.
• Guide the execution of solutions for complex, non-routine issues; redirects solution implementation if desired results were not originally met.
• Provide tactical scope and work directly with the business representatives/customers to understand the requirements driving the need for a solution to be developed.
• Lead teams of both business and technical colleagues throughout the course of the project, and communicate with each of them effectively.
• Be an AWS evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS.
• Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model.
• Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Lead and participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field required.  Additional experience may substitute for the degree requirement at a rate of 4 years of experience for 1 year of education.
• Preferred: AWS SA Cert – Professional
• 12+ years of related experience.
• Experienced with Java or C#.  
• Knowledge with at least one other programming language such as Node.js, Scala, Python, or GO.
• Knowledge within distributed systems or a microservice based architecture.
• Expert leadership skills to effectively communicate and manage a technical team.
• Knowledge and professional use of AWS Cloud with an emphasis on serverless technologies.
• Ability to build containerized applications and systems.
• Knowledge and professional experience with CI/CD pipelines for serverless and container applications.


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