Responsibilities:
In partnership with other leaders in the firm, you will focus on selling and delivering cloud solutions using AWS. As Cloud Architect, you will you will drive the design and delivery of world-class cloud solutions for our clients, providing expertise on cloud infrastructure services including design, build and migrate. This includes taking a lead role in the cloud architecture and engineering practice. You will be challenged to find approaches that enable rapid adoption of new cloud services and drive transformation for our client’s business and IT processes.
- Promote public cloud internally to sales and delivery teams to drive growth.
- Be the go to person for Cloud Architecture. You should have a deep understanding of services offered on Public Cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build complex solutions.
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Public Cloud and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the public cloud solutions architect community
- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, delivery teams and support.
- Actively seek out developmental opportunities for growth, act as strong brand ambassadors for the firm as well as share their knowledge and experience with others.
- Respect the needs of their colleagues and build up cooperative relationships.
- Understand the goals of our internal and external stakeholder to set personal priorities as well as align their teams’ work to achieve the objectives.
- Constantly challenge themselves, collaborate with others to deliver on tasks and take accountability for the results.
- Build productive relationships and communicate effectively in order to positively influence teams and other stakeholders.
- Offer insights based on a solid understanding of what makes Deloitte successful.
- Project integrity and confidence while motivating others through team collaboration as well as recognising individual strengths, differences, and contributions.
- Understand disruptive trends and promote potential opportunities for improvement.
Qualifications:
- The right person will be detailed, highly technical, having 5+ years of current solution architecture experience, including consulting and implementation for hybrid, and non-hybrid solutions. Demonstrated experience in an enterprise environment, and experience with AWS is an advantage
- The candidate is AWS Certified (at least Solution Architect – Associate level) will have a thorough understanding, familiarity and experience with Amazon Web Services. They will keep themselves up to date with the latest and greatest developments in the Public Cloud arena, and should have a thorough and deep understanding of key differentiators between Amazon Web Services and competing offerings from Azure, GCP etc.
- Experience in the establishment of an automated DevOps release management pipeline which delivers tooling for next generation application development efforts (the Dev) and on-going production operations (the Ops).
- A thorough and in-depth understanding of Container based architectures
- Experience architecting infrastructure solutions (preferably on Amazon Web Services) using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
- 3+ years architecting, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services infrastructure and topologies
- Experience with Enterprise application and database architecture is an advantage
- Experience with deploying cloud based solutions and workload migration strategy using tools
- Understanding of Agile, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery
- Demonstrated skills in communication (oral, written, presentation), analysis, problem solving and short term and long term planning.
- Experienced, persuasive and effective presenter, both written and verbal.
- Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.
- Willingness to work outside of office base and most of all…
- An appreciation of the consulting lifestyle and ability to travel (both locally and abroad) is a pre-requisite to fit to our short-term and long-term project assignment.
- Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies highly desired
- Degree in computer-science, engineering or equivalent
- A robust understanding of ERP technical architectures – SAP, Oracle etc.
- We’ll love you if you have multi-cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP or both) knowledge, and experience.
