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