Lead Enterprise Architect

What success looks like in this role:

• Collaborates with business, technology and product stakeholders to drive holistic architectural design
• Monitors industry and the competition for solution-focused technical and process changes and advances.
• Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives.
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology and interoperability requirements and produces high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Works with cross-functional technical, development and delivery teams to ensure application of smooth, efficient and scalable release processes.
• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.
• Translates business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases and data warehouses.
• Helps define data architectural framework, standards and principles, including modelling, metadata, security, reference data, etc.
• Helps define reference architecture and patterns others follow to create and improve data systems.
• Collaborates with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to structure effective data flows – from generation through transition to application.
• Provides Systems Architecture advice and support across a larger product portfolio or business line.
• Collaborates with business, engineering and product stakeholders to drive holistic technology implementations while maintaining constant focus on delivering client value.
• Works with portfolio stakeholders and customers to align the architectural direction of the solution intent.
• Drives structuring of the product vision, roadmap, priorities, enabler capabilities, non-functional requirements and solution demo activities.
• Consults with architecture, development, infrastructure and operational teams to address issues relating to performance, security, scalability, observability and availability.

• Design cloud solutions based on the well-architected framework.
• Provide thought leadership on usage and implementation of cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Work closely with client stakeholders (chief architects, technology SMEs, etc., ) to gather requirements for cloud migrations, cloud-native greenfield solutions etc.
• Review solution architectures with internal cloud architects, and external stakeholders
• Develop proof-of-concepts, wherever necessary, and validate the solutions with client stakeholders.
• Conduct assessments on existing environments and provide recommendations for choosing and implementing the right cloud strategy.
• Work with client stakeholders to create migration, modernization, and digital transformation roadmaps.
• Setup Cloud Centers of Excellence by working with customer’s IT SMEs.
• Implement cloud solutions that are highly secure , resilient, fault-tolerant, and compliant.
• Manage and maintain AWS cloud environments and resources .
• Provide Hands-on support, wherever necessary, to develop cloud native solutions, Dev Sec Ops  , IaC , and SRE automation
• Develop unit tests wherever applicable
• Gather requirements from the clients and dissect them into user stories and tasks .
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to other team members
• Conduct code reviews and technical design sessions
• Work collaboratively with other team members in designing and problem solving
• Participate in all agile ceremonies

• U.S. citizenship is required to obtain and/or maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• 10 + years of Hands-on experience developing and managing cloud-native solutions , preferably i n AWS or Azure.
• Hands-on experiences with core cloud services (storage, networking, firewalls, DNS, databases, applications, data analytics, compute, container services) across any cloud provider, preferably AWS or Azure.
• 10 + years of Hands-on experience in programming and scripting technologies like Java, Python, Groovy, Shell , Go
• 7 + years of Hands-on experience in designing and developing IaC automation using terraform, cloud…