Job Description

Responsibilities

• Create Standards, Patterns, Reusable Components/Building Blocks for consumption by clients\' vendors and project teams
• Creation and continuous refinement of all the following: Standards, Patterns, Building Blocks, best practises, guidelines, technical specifications, and architecture visions containing at a minimum: mapping to policy clauses, quality attributes, diagrams, associated risks, technical and system requirements.
• Ensure Standards and policy clauses and/or requirements are mapped to the building blocks for traceability and automated compliance baseline achievement
• Collaborate with clients\' project teams to understand their business objectives, technology ecosystem, and architect Cloud solutions use standard components and patterns
• Lead the end-to-end solution suitability assessment/discussion, architectural analysis, and implementation planning in tandem with vendor architects.
• Perform Solution design, guidance, and review, including technical feasibility assessments, effort estimation, architectural decision-making, and ensure adherence to best practices, industry frameworks and organisational standards
• Collaborate with the other architect team members to identify technical risks and challenges, proactively addressing them in the aforementioned Standard approaches and Patterns
• Remain up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluate their potential impact on clients\' solution architectures, and present findings with recommended ways forward

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Computing Science or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT/Consulting domain
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in an Architect role including designing, building, and maintaining complex, cloud-based solutions
• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Professional level preferred)
• Proven success in leading/guiding small teams who are not your direct reports, to decompose complexity into smaller components and tasks, use well-understood, documented, engineered components (and Solution Building Blocks) with approved configurations, communicate and obtain alignment on the standard way forward
• Familiarity with the principles and rationale behind disciplined Enterprise Architecture
• Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (principles, tools, best practices) e.g. Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent

• Working experience with other Public Clouds (Azure or GCP)
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Containers, Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, Fargate, S3, SQS
• Demonstrated scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, or Shell)
• Microsoft Server OS and related technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, and Active Directory
• Deploying, monitoring and administration of SQL/NoSQL Database Engines
• Experience in conducting pre-sales and/or executive level presentations or workshops
• Designing CI/CD DevSecOps pipelines (e.g. AWS Developer Tools, GitLab, Jenkins)
• Ability to collaborate closely with sales and delivery teams to provide pre-sales support

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