Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect _ This is an upcoming opportunity

Primary Purpose of the Role

As a dynamic Cloud Architect, you will lead engagement teams to drive unparalleled customer outcomes by spearheading requirements specification, developing cloud architectures for Microsoft Azure and M365, and overseeing the end-to-end design, configuration, integration, and testing of cutting-edge technical solutions.

Key Accountabilities

Your impactful role as a Cloud Architect encompasses:

• Conducting strategic sourcing activities to meticulously identify and evaluate potential vendors against meticulously documented business functional and non-functional requirements.
• Crafting visionary enterprise-level and solution cloud platform architectures for Microsoft Azure and M365, ensuring strict adherence to whole-of-government standards.
• Developing comprehensive architecture guidance for our proficient cloud engineers.
• Actively collaborating with cross-functional teams to generate solutions in alignment with target architectures and the latest technology trends, actively contributing insights at change management forums.
• Offering expertise and assistance in platform automation, encompassing testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Collaborating on the creation of delivery backlogs, task sequencing, effort estimates, and project scheduling for seamless project execution.
• Assisting in pre-sales activities by proficiently gathering requirements and developing compelling customer proposals.
• Championing the organization's technology practice and methodology by contributing to the development of technical patterns, intellectual property, templates, and internal technical training.
• Assisting DQA in acquiring and maintaining the requisite competencies, panel memberships, and standing with external stakeholders to propel business growth.
• Actively participating in DQA coaching and professional development programs, contributing to peer reviews, and providing support to others as required.

Required Knowledge and Skills

As an adept Cloud Architect, you bring to the table:

• Proven experience as a cloud architect, particularly with deep expertise in the subset of M365, Azure technologies stack, and DevOps.
• A demonstrated track record of technical leadership across both project and operational tasks
• The ability to package intellectual property into frameworks, methodologies, and toolkits, enabling seamless integration across the Technology team.
• Proficiency in understanding DevSecOps and applying automation and governance principles to deliver state-of-the-art cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience in translating client needs into elegant, workable solutions, accompanied by suitably resourced, logically sequenced, and accurately costed proposals.
• The capability to articulate conceptual and solution architectures, as well as development approaches, with clarity and conciseness in both written and diagrammatic forms.

Since most of our clients are in government, we're looking for candidates who are Australian Citizens with an Australian Security Clearance or the potential to obtain one. Candidates who don't meet those criteria won't be considered, but we encourage everyone who does to apply!

Please submit your application if you find this opportunity intriguing and in line with your professional aspirations. This position can be based either in our Canberra or Sydney offices.