Cloud Architect

Job Description

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.