Cloud Solutions Architect

Our client is seeking an experienced and motivated Cloud Solutions Architect to join their dynamic team. Responsibilities:

• Understand how all parts of the business model works together (processes, operating systems, application architecture) to design a specific solution that meets business needs
• Translate technical project details into a language that all stakeholders can understand
• Analyse project constraints and making technological decisions that will reconcile restrictions with project goals
• Determine which technology stack will best fit the product by conducting technology assessments and comparisons
• Analyse all non-functional requirements (e.g., security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability, etc) to ensure that product engineering can be met
• Create a general blueprint and solution prototype that depicts the future architecture of the product based on expectations and the existing environment
• Estimate the budget to achieve the technical vision of the product and presenting this to the relevant stakeholders
• Provide oversight and controlling the solution development
• Provide support to project management activities to ensure that resources, risk recognition and planning remain aligned with solution goals
• Coach and provide support to less experienced solution architects
• Responsible for solution architectures to build and/or migrate EDA tools into public Cloud like AWS, Azure
• Responsible for managing and providing operational support of multiple cloud environments
• Architect, deploy and administer Linux virtual machines in a multi-tenant/vendor cloud environment
• Develop a strategy to automate operational procedures for auto-scaling and deployment, leveraging AWS and third party tools
• Lead Cloud Strategy development defining business drivers, cloud adoption roadmap and business case
• Assess clients’ workloads and technology landscape and define strategy to transform to AWS
• Prescribe the Architecture, tools, frameworks for accelerated cloud adoption.
• Participate in and oversee the design of Cloud solutions, from conceptual, logical and physical design to meet client’s business and technical requirements leveraging architecture patterns and following development processes.
• Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation.
• Create user interactions on various websites and platforms, writing code optimised for mobile and develop databases and services for functionality.
• Design, building, testing, and implementing software solutions
• Write clean, functional code on the front- and back-end
• Test and fixing bugs or other coding issues
• Design, coding, and testing programs and scripts against agreed specification
• Conduct releases to test and production environment and implementing post release reviews.
• Document application process for future maintenance and upgrades
• Write technical specifications, documenting code throughout the development process, including changes made and special instructions required for deployment.
• Create and maintaining technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates
• Investigate, analysing, and documenting reported defects and performing maintenance programming and correction of identified defects
• Transcribe data on to the change management system, ensuring accuracy and consistence of information

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
• ITIL
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, IASA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Open Group Certified Architect)
• AWS skills specialized in serverless development
• NodeJs, PHP, C#, Javascript, CSS
• Postgres, Oracle, Mysql, MSSql - In-depth knowledge or skills in creating stored procs, data structure, and performance with large data volumes.
• Experience with Docker Containers
• Mobile development (Flutter)
• API development and front ends
• Must be comfortable in Linux environment.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a software development or technical architect or similar role (one or more IT areas)
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in solution architecture role
• Experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment
• Experience in the development and usage of technology platforms / models to achieve business outcomes
• Track record within a number of IT programmes, owning the architecture and design activities
• Experience managing projects and related resources
• DevOps experience
• Experience of developing and implementing relevant strategies in a multi-supplier environment, managing third-party services