Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect Contract Job Description Job Title: Senior Cloud Architect Duration: 12 months Location: Columbus OH (Need Local candidates) Description of Duties: 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical Architecture skills leveraging Cloud services and COTS products for different business problems: SalesForce, Azure, Amazon AWS 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical analysis to analyze a business problem, market analysis of cloud based solutions 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical writing leveraging Visio, Rational System Architect, Sharepoint, Avolution, Powerpoint, Word 10% of Total Work Effort: Troubleshooting Architectural guidance to cloud level issues Scope of Activities:

• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
• Analyze enterprise business drivers to determine corresponding change requirements.
• Analyze the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• "Sell" the architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results.
• Define the principles to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
• Design and lead the implementation of an ESA based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
• Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring ESA compliance.
• Develop a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state (as defined by the ESA).
• Coordinate solution architecture implementation and modification activities.
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
• Consult with application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the ESA.
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Work closely with the enterprise program management office (EPMO) or project office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered Charter Global