Associate Cloud Technical Architect

• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives
• Designs and architects less complex cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability
• Provides pre-sales technical support and know-how in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current collaboration capabilities
• Assesses existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud
• Designs integration solutions to enable seamless DATA flow between cloud and on-premises environments
• Defines and implements security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems
• Supports the development and maintain cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures
• Provides support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices
• Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate in scope of work determination, product pricing and rFP/rFI responses
• Assists with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution
• Influences and guides members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which will require the involvement of the appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC
• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team
• Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit, the Cloud Technology Technical Architect will evaluate each opportunity for alignment with organizational capabilities and business policy, prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regard to their needs, as understood, document the proposed technology solution, document the statement of work along with all labor requirements, work with the relevant internal stakeholders to prepare the pricing format that will be supplied to the customer, perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided, develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required, engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design, prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution, document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion, review the final parts list as supplied and submit all information to the applicable bid team for final assembly, verify the proposal’s accuracy and sign off on the final documents to be presented to the client
• assist during the final presentation to the client as appropriate

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information technology, etc.
• Vendor product, sales and technology certifications
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
• Some technical experience within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment
• Basic experience as a Cloud Technical Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud architectures for complex systems and applications
• Basic experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions, preferably using leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Basic experience in a professional technical role
• Basic experience in project management methodologies
• Basic experience with major cloud platforms
• Basic experience with serverless computing platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions
• Basic experience with automation and orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to streamline the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources

Hybrid Working