Azure Cloud Architect
Columbus, OH, United States
Cloud Architecture, Solutions, & Engineering: Responsible for designing and developing cloud solutions in collaboration with agency cloud engineers; Acts as a subject matter expert on cloud architecture and services for a particular cloud provider
Leads cloud architects and engineers with regards to architecture and technical implementation
Collaborates with Cloud engineers to ensure organizational best practices are implemented across the entire cloud portfolio.
Ensures Digital Architecture standards are applied; negotiates and documents tradeoffs with Digital Architecture as needed.
Understand and delivers security guardrails and frameworks; upholds cloud security best practices.
Support application rationalization, vendor interactions, and procurements for cloud services.
Work with agencies and other stakeholders to define technical drivers for procurement activities and evaluate vendor responses.
Participate in and drive Cloud Governance board activities.
Cloud Strategy: Develops and drives the end-to-end technical roadmap for existing and proposed cloud services and articulates impact on the broader strategy; develops innovative solutions and technical strategy.
Understands business objectives, industry standards, and technical drivers around cloud strategy and their impact on current and future implementations of cloud; makes decisions based on these inputs.
Provide technical oversight and guidance for infrastructure as code templates to adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards.
Makes recommendations on new procedures and overall approach in partnership with other cloud architects; negotiates and documents tradeoffs as needed.
Support annual cloud portfolio planning with agencies, in collaboration with Strategic Investment & Architecture team.
Owns Azure components of annual Cloud Strategic Plan
Knowledge:
Application Architecture
Service Design & Management
Cloud Strategic Plan Development
Cloud Governance
Disaster Recovery
Project Governance & Reporting
Agile Project Management
Cloud Risk and Compliance
Security Control Design
DevOps & DevSecOps
Enterprise Platforms
APIs & Containers
Agency Enablement: Responsible for providing technical oversight and guidance on all cloud services and deployable infrastructure.
Provides technical advisory to future and existing projects and programs.
Support buildout of financial operations reports and monitoring procedures, e.g., around resource utilization.
Assists with provisioning of cloud services and enablement of agency usage of state IaaS and PaaS offerings.
Works to establish guidelines, templates, best practices, and standards related to state cloud offerings.
Training and Knowledge Management: Serves as a mentor and SME to cloud architects and engineers and ideates appropriate training and education for agencies on architecture and services.
§ Collaborates with HR and vendors to create: 1. training recommendations for CCoE & agencies and 2. conduct informational trainings e.g, overviews of major people, process, and tools changes.