Cloud Architect

Location: Buffalo, NY – Remote

Duration: 6 Month – Contract to Hire (CTH)

Key Accountabilities/Outcomes

Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications

Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities

Be a technical consultant for application project teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains

Collaborates with other enterprise architects to define technology roadmap and ensures alignment to product area roadmap

Conducts innovation and roadmap planning for applications within the business functions of the portfolio

Oversees IT application risk analysis and mitigation planning incorporating Asset Management, Security, and Infrastructure domain input into mitigation plans for Experience team portfolios

Identify and Plan projects for application modernization program to reduce legacy platform dependence and technical debt

Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value and formalize it as enterprise standards and build reference architectures

Establishes and owns the end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development) to drive roadmaps, desired technologies, and target state architectures across the portfolio (Reduce technology debt, duplication, and silos)

Communicate key business benefits and implications of technology decisions and outcomes to business portfolio leaders and senior executive management

Works with business and technology delivery leaders to align architecture roadmaps with business strategy and technology delivery plans

Proven abilities to work in multiple Cloud platforms and proven record of handling multi-million project initiatives

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Solid architectural experience in building Cloud based Platform as a Service that is Cloud Infrastructure provider agnostic

5+ years of in-depth experience in setting environment to deploy services on public cloud

2+ years of experience in using Kubernetes or other deployment orchestrator and management mechanisms.

Build CI/CD processes and pipelines to enable 1-click and self-managed deployments.

Experience with big data systems, analytics, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture

Experience with design/architecting large-scale distributed systems preferably using Microsoft technologies

Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, Cloud Patterns, Dependency injection, Event sourcing, etc.).

Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience and recovery, etc.).

Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.

Understanding of features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform (Security, Firewalls, RedisCache, Key Vault, Service Bus, ASR, Networking, OMS, Blob Storage, Resource Groups, NSG, Application Insights, SQL Server, Sql DB, Load-Balancers & Azure HCI) is preferred.

Cloud Architecture, Delivery, and Maintenance

Create positive impacts to the Organization

Communicate and Influence business partners

Experience with agile development methodologies is a plus.