WFS Solutions Architect: Cloud

About the Role

Main Purpose The Solution Architect (Cloud) will be responsible for planning, maintaining and designing cloud solutions. He/she will have to translate business requirements into proposed architectural solutions across business units and business processes. Responsible for formulating the future cloud state architecture for a particular initiative and for providing a high level roadmap for the implementation of the cloud solution architecture.

Responsibilities

• Technology Solutions Accountable for the creation of cloud architecture solutions to meet business requirements, in line with the IT strategy and architecture. Business requirements to be provided by the business analysis team. Collaborate and support the development of the cloud strategy and plan. Ensure that the outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original cloud solution specified by IT e.g. supports the project manager to resolve technical issues during build. Work with the vendors, business analysts and system analysts to design cloud solutions Manage the relationship with our Cloud MSP and direction of our cloud strategy. Subject matter Expertise Provide ad-hoc consultancy as required to senior business stakeholders on matters relating to cloud solutions. This will involve provide specific content knowledge of WFS solution components. Although detailed SME input will be provided by vendors the Cloud Solution Architect with be required to co-ordinate this activity. Adding clarity to business requirements; challenging business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created. Thinking outside of the box to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request. Advising on supplier and cost options, and ensuring that the validity of the overall solution is fully represented and considered in any RFI/RFP process, or in the creation and evaluation of proof of concept solutions. Methodology and Quality Assurance Work with the Architecture Review Board to consult on the quality of the IT business solution and architectural soundness of the design. Continuously identify opportunities to improve and streamline cloud business solutions Management of the Cloud Centre of Excellence with the focus on architecture governance. Requirements Strong architecture skills (TOGAF, UML, Archimate) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) Knowledge of one or more cloud programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages) AWS: Control Tower, Organizations, Landing Zone, Security Tooling (AWS Securityhub, AWS Inspector, AWS Guarduty, AWS Detective, NGFW’s) AWS Identity and Access Management: Candidate needs to illustrate his/her understanding of the IAM Policy evaluation logic AWS VPC: Hub and Spoke Design with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-To-Site VPN, AWS Client VPN, Security Groups AWS Resource Access Manager Network routing and DNS management, Route Tables, S2S and Direct Connect, etc. Monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK Stack, Prometheus, etc. Strong UML skills Working within both Agile and traditional waterfall environments Analysis and design Broad general IT knowledge. Good knowledge of traditional infrastructure and shifting toward cloud. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION Computer Science/Information Systems/Mathematics/Engineering degree TOGAF certification AWS/Azure certifications beneficial EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 10 years IT experience 5 Years of solid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) At least two years as a cloud architect