AWS - Senior Cloud Architect

Job Description

The Senior Cloud Architect position is a leadership position within the organization that is responsible for managing multiple consulting and delivery projects, teams/programs. The Senior Architect provides consulting and delivery assurance of services for clients through a range of internal and external functions. The position of Senior Cloud Architect is distinguished from Cloud Architect positions by the nature of the engagements or programs involved; deal sizes range from transactional solutions of $2-5M. The Senior Cloud Architect is expected to have the experience and background to perform all the duties described below for engagements that are focused on consulting/delivery management within the defined subject matter area, including resource management, deliverables development, project planning and executions, adherence to contract attributes and costing, customer interaction, and other key aspects of solution-based managed services.

For a Senior Cloud Architect, these engagements will typically be delivered for a European customer or at the customer location, usually Europe based. They are expected to have adequate level skills required for complex deliverable-based, fully outsourced, or extremely large-scale engagements or programs and lead the delivery effort to a larger cross-functional project/program. This role may require up to 50% travel.

The ideal candidate will bring their deep expertise in Cloud Services primarily on AWS, Microservices and Serverless architectures, Cloud Native Development, CI/CD and DevOps, presales, delivery, and operational excellence. They will provide expert level support for strategic ongoing and new TGS client initiatives. They will work amongst our other key partners to assist in the development of robust cloud offerings and bring holistic solutions across key focus areas of TGS Enterprise Modernization strategic objectives.

Additional responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
Provide leadership, expertise, and support for DevOps and Cloud engagements through a range of internal and external functions in the following areas:

Engagement Delivery Support Responsibilities
Partner with our Delivery organization to ensure project initiation and transition phase is executed according to the Enterprise Modernization portfolio guidelines and that the assigned Delivery Manager/Service Manager is provided the knowledge required to deliver the engagement effectively
Facilitate internal communication and assembling a solution delivery team for new engagements
Provide solution consulting and advice during the initiation and transition phases to the Delivery Manager as needed
Attend project kick-off meetings, status reviews, and other delivery meetings as requested by the Delivery Manager
Ensure engagement methodology is followed by team from opportunity assessment to project closeout
Develop collaborative relationship with the Delivery team to support the organization from a delivery perspective
Help define the team's performance metrics in alignment to customers KPIs and OKRs
Identify opportunities for service improvement through problem management, service optimization, automation, etc.

Pre-Sales Support
Work with Solution Architects and Solution Executives, when needed, to develop scope, prepare estimates, prepare implementation plans, and ensure project risks are assessed during sales cycle for project services and outsource engagements
As needed, understand client business and technical requirements and communicate internally with Solution Architects and Solution Executives to ensure solution matches client needs
As needed, support Solution Architects and Solution Executives in process to calculate risk premium, prepare and review estimates, and prepare project pricing

Practice Support
Collect and provide input into the design, development and improvement of service offerings and internal DevOps and Cloud accelerator programs
Implement service offering changes in process and procedures
Maintain and organize Enterprise Modernization portfolio intellectual property
Work with Managers and Director to improve and implement changes to project delivery processes, methodology, and back office procedures
Stay informed with regards to developments in the application management industry and maintain current knowledge of the generally accepted best practices in service transition and management

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's in Computer Science or other engineering or technical discipline is required
Experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise
Experience as a Cloud Architect or equivalent role
AWS services experience is required.
Cloud migration experience is required
Microservices and Serverless experience is required
Hands on knowledge in various AWS services like VPC, Lambda, Event Bridge, S3, DynamoDB, System Manager, API Gateway, ACM, Route53, Cloud Watch etc
Experience with strategizing and solution migration of legacy enterprise app (Lift & Shift/ Code Refactoring)
Experience with source code and software collaboration technologies (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory)
Experience configuring and managing continuous integration servers (e.g. GitHb Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Travis CI, Circle CI,Tekton)
Strong scripting skills (e.g. CLI, Go,Python, Bash, Groovy)
Good knowledge on programming languages like C#, Java and Web APIs
Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
Strong practical Linux (RHEL) and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems