Cloud Architect Position
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to drive our initiatives forward by defining and documenting the architectural roadmap for our business, supporting the implementation of the target state application landscape, guiding infrastructure engineering and application teams, and producing scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
1. Key Responsibilities:
2. Collaborate with the Global Enterprise Architecture team to define and document the architectural roadmap for international operations, ensuring alignment on standards and processes.
3. Define and support implementation of the target application landscape, integrating systems and leveraging capabilities (APIs), with a strong understanding of business functions and improvement opportunities.
4. Guide infrastructure and application teams on rationalization and cloud migration (Azure), providing architectural oversight.
5. Develop companywide standards and best practices for engineering complex, large-scale technology solutions.
6. Specify technologies, application architectures, and data structures to support internal assets.
7. Deliver secure, scalable, high-performing software solutions and support Application Managers in product roadmap development.
8. Manage architecture exceptions, ensuring documentation, approval, and remediation where possible.
9. Monitor application performance against non-functional requirements and collaborate on product availability and continuity.
10. Help create and govern compliance with Hybrid Cloud standards and optimize cloud architecture for security, cost, and stability.
11. Analyze and recommend technical approaches for cloud development and integration challenges, embedding security controls with InfoSec.
12. Support vendor/product cloud selections, including RFPs and security/compliance audits.
13. Lead cloud architecture for UK products with plans to extend internationally, enabling application and data teams to utilize cloud benefits.
14. Participate in architectural governance and collaborate with PMO and delivery teams to ensure enterprise consistency, speed to market, and impact assessment of project scope changes.