Cloud Architect

Location:
Buffalo, NY – Remote

Duration: 6 Month – Contract to Hire (CTH)

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications
• Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities
• Be a technical consultant for application project teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains
• Collaborates with other enterprise architects to define technology roadmap and ensures alignment to product area roadmap
• Conducts innovation and roadmap planning for applications within the business functions of the portfolio
• Oversees IT application risk analysis and mitigation planning incorporating Asset Management, Security, and Infrastructure domain input into mitigation plans for Experience team portfolios
• Identify and Plan projects for application modernization program to reduce legacy platform dependence and technical debt
• Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value and formalize it as enterprise standards and build reference architectures
• Establishes and owns the end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development) to drive roadmaps, desired technologies, and target state architectures across the portfolio (Reduce technology debt, duplication, and silos)
• Communicate key business benefits and implications of technology decisions and outcomes to business portfolio leaders and senior executive management
• Works with business and technology delivery leaders to align architecture roadmaps with business strategy and technology delivery plans
• Proven abilities to work in multiple Cloud platforms and proven record of handling multi-million project initiatives

• Own the design and hands-on development of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications
• Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities
• Be a technical consultant for application project teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains
• Collaborates with other enterprise architects to define technology roadmap and ensures alignment to product area roadmap
• Conducts innovation and roadmap planning for applications within the business functions of the portfolio
• Oversees IT application risk analysis and mitigation planning incorporating Asset Management, Security, and Infrastructure domain input into mitigation plans for Experience team portfolios
• Identify and Plan projects for application modernization program to reduce legacy platform dependence and technical debt
• Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value and formalize it as enterprise standards and build reference architectures
• Establishes and owns the end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native…