Enterprise Cloud Architect

About the Role:

As an Enterprise Cloud Architect, you will design and provide technical guidance for the implementation, support, and maintenance of cloud-based technologies, services, and platforms. This position is a strategic role and requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyze business needs, develop architectural strategies, and ensure the scalability, availability, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure to achieve business outcome-driven results for the company. The Enterprise Cloud Architect is a critical member of the Engineering Architecture Team, working collaboratively across Technology and Business Units to enable business functions through technology.

You Will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into robust and scalable cloud-based solutions.

• Design and architect Cloud Infrastructure that supports workload, data management, and security requirements, ensuring high availability, low latency scalability, and high performance.

• Assess the Company’s current and desired cloud maturity. Iterate the company’s existing Cloud Strategy to advance the Company’s CMM (Cloud Maturity Model), keeping it up-to-date and relevant to current and projected needs.

• Develop and provide technical guidance for the implementation of cloud security strategies, including access controls, encryption, monitoring, identity and access management, threat detection, and incident response.

• Evaluate and recommend appropriate cloud technologies, platforms, and services based on their capabilities, pricing models, suitability for specific projects or to meet business needs, and industry best practices.

• Collaborate with DevSecOps, and engineering teams to optimize application architectures for cloud deployment, considering data storage, compute resources, and network configurations.

• Creates and communicates standards, best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures that define repeatable solutions.

• Identifies training and development needs required to support cloud-based solutions standards; develops materials for training and awareness and delivers messages to the intended audience.

• Conduct regular security assessments and audits of cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities and provide recommendations for remediation plans to enhance our security posture.

• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of cloud-based systems, applications, and services. Recommend scalability measures to handle increased workloads and peak demand periods.

• Develop strategies to optimize cloud costs and drive cost-efficiency across the organization's cloud infrastructure.

• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, data management, and security best practices, and provide guidance on their adoption.

• Develop standards and best practices and coach and mentor organization

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, engineering or relevant work experience 

• 12-15 years of progressive advancement in appropriate technical and/or software engineering roles for cloud solutions, including the architecting of cloud solutions.

• Including experience with implementation, deployment, and support experience for public cloud services and infrastructure.

• Direct experience with Cloud-ready or native architectures, in particular architecting solutions on public cloud platforms such as AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure.

• Strong knowledge and experience in application architecture, cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), DevSecOps, microservices architecture, data management principles (including data modeling, database design, ETL processes, and data warehousing), design patterns, and cloud patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, such as containers, serverless computing, and microservices architecture.

• Practical experience with cloud security, organization, and governance including identifying and mitigating risk in cloud environments.

• Experience with digital transformation and change management.

• An understanding of architectural tradeoffs and the ability to communicate and present architectural decisions to all partners.

• Ability to translate and distill complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand solutions and constructs for a variety of executive, business, and partner audiences. Strong relationship-building skills, fostering an ability to influence without authority.

• Understanding of financial concepts to support budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, and business case development.

• Curiosity, a love of continual learning, and a fearless approach to asking questions.

• Recognition and respect for the knowledge and potential contributions of everyone up and down the organization. Excellent time management, documentation, communication, and written skills.

• Cloud Certifications are a plus.

• Experience with AI/ML/MLOps services preferred.

• Experience with the Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) is preferred.

• Experience hybrid cloud environment preferred.

• Self-motivated, have a phenomenal work ethic.

Our Benefits (there are more but here are some highlights):

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles

• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

• Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products

• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution

• Offsite team retreats

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