WFS Solutions Architect: Cloud

Main Purpose

• 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.
  

•  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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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