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Cloud Solutions Architect (Azure) Location: US-IL-Chicago Jobcode: u5dfb2 Email Job
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The Transaction Processing and Settlements team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Azure Cloud Solutions Architect to join our team. You will play a crucial role in Architecting, Designing, and leading the implementation of solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. You will be responsible for defining the Solution Architecture for enterprise-grade solutions on Azure, following the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and recommending solution patterns and practices for your team. You will have a direct impact on public Cloud adoption, Agile, and DevOps maturity within our Business Unit. The role will require you to be hands-on with Azure products and work across a broad spectrum of technologies, collaborating with Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineering, Business Architects, and Product teams.
Responsibilities:
Lead the Architecture and Design of Business solutions implemented on Microsoft Azure
Guide various Public Cloud solution options, discuss benefits/risks, and provide recommendations that align with strategic business needs
Provide thought leadership, recommendations, and roadmaps for large transformation and greenfield programs on Azure Public Cloud
Assess and provide recommendations on various cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
Drive Proof of Concepts, map solution options to business problems, and aid in defining business value and benefits
Collaborate with application engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure requirements and best practices are reflected in the Azure solution design
Provide architecture guidance based on the Azure Well-Architected Framework to help build reliable, secure, and cost-effective workloads in Azure
Be proactive in keeping the team informed about cloud industry best practices
Collaborate with stakeholders, recognize challenges, and proactively offer solutions
Mentor team on cloud architecture principles, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
15+ years of proven IT experience with at least 5+ years of solid hands-on experience in architecting cloud solutions, including design and deployment of workloads on Microsoft Azure
Requirements:
Extensive experience with implementing solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform
Prior consulting experience with large-scale implementations on Azure
Experience with cloud deployment, technical and security architecture, database architecture, virtualization, software design, networking, DevOps and DevSecOps
Strong expertise in cloud architecture, and design, including fault tolerance, scalability, and globally highly available systems
Strong understanding of Cloud Native design principles and modern architectures (e.g. event-driven architectures, stream processing, event sourcing/CQRS)
Familiarity with cloud migration strategies and tools, defining migration roadmaps as well as integration patterns and technologies.
Proficiency in cloud infrastructures with hands-on experience in deploying and managing cloud resources using Azure in enterprise-wide environments
Sound knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and secure networking
Experience with IaC using Terraform with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitHub Actions
Experience in Azure Infrastructure, Networks, Storage, Apps and Azure DevOps
Experience with Azure Resource Manager, Virtual Networks, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Automation, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Site Recovery
Experience in developing and deploying Cloud Native Applications using Azure PaaS Capabilities involving App Services Plans, Key Vault, SQL Azure DB, Azure Functions, Containers, Azure Container Apps, AKS
Experience in Integration Technologies such as IPaaS, Azure API Management, Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid
Experience with IAM, Authentication, and Authorization of applications using Azure AD, OAuth, (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
Knowledge of Monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting of Azure workloads and services
Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, PowerShell, & Bash, etc.,
Experience working in a fast-paced growth organization in a Global Delivery Model
Ability to present ideas to both technical and business stakeholders and facilitate strategic discussions.
Strong management and communication skills
Financial Services domain knowledge will be a plus
Understanding of the SCRUM agile process
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