Cloud Architect

**Introduction**

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

**Role Purpose**


**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- AWS & Azure Cloud Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer certifications.
- Solid Experience architecting Solutions on AWS / Azure.
- Minimum of 5 years' hand-on experience with Cloud architecture and automation.
- Experience in a hands-on technology engineering role.
- Expertise in continuous integration and delivery practices.
- Solid experience with Source Code Management tools such as Git.
- At least 3 years software development experience using a high-level language (Java, Python, C#, etc)

**Preferred**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a related IT field.
- Experience with microservices and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
- Experience in logging and monitoring tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Experience with Automation tools such as Ansible, terraform, AWS CloudFormation, python, and bash scripting, etc.
- In-depth understanding of software development techniques and tooling for software and product development (incl. coding, coding standards and reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment, and operations)

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Technical design, build and support cloud solutions to meet current and future business needs.
- Document the as is Cloud Technical landscape to identify opportunities to improve and optimize.
- Develop a technical blueprint and guidelines for consuming Cloud Services.
- Develop migration plans to transition on premise workloads into Cloud.
- Develop a decision tree to assist in choosing the right cloud platform for each use case.
- Assist with technical roadmaps and approaches for delivering technology and transformation.
- Work closely with our vendors to deliver solutions to our clients.
- Work with our clients to assist them solve business problem using cloud solutions.
- Educate and be a change adoption agent for our business to utilize cloud solutions effectively.
- Develop and inform our users around the technical use cases for Cloud solutions.
- Drive the execution of key project delivery and bring technology strategy to life.
- Identify opportunities to improve ways of work using cloud solutions through automation.
- Mentor and train our global IT Teams on Cloud Solutions.
- Maintain an IT Asset list of all cloud purchased products, user license allocation to optimize spend and maintain software license inventory for audit and compliance purposes.
- Ensure proposed solutions are highly available.
- Develop and maintain documentation, e.g., Policies, Standards, Processes, Design Specification, As Built documentation.
- Develop and test disaster recovery plan/s where applicable at least annually for cloud deployed solutions.
- Enforce “Security by Design” principle when designing, installing, and maintaining all cloud services.
- Provide input within the Tech Stratco, Cloud Chapter and Cloud Guilds.
- Design Cloud Architectural solutions with Security at the forefront of decision making.
- Maintain and Enhance automated Landing Zone by continuously improving and adding new features.
- Drive Cloud Adoption and awareness across the Momentum Metropolitan Group
- Build modular architecture that can be decomposed in consumable platform products and services, providing the ability to recover cost at each of them individually.
- Input into Implementation of DevOps Practices Site Reliability Engineering capabilities across all Products.
- Implement quality processes, capabilities, and tooling within all development activities.
- Work with stakeholders in the Enterprise, Solution and Development teams to produce and maintain standards, guidelines, and pattern catalogues.
- Accountable for continually improving efficiencies and costs of Cloud platforms, through reduction of technical drag and standardisation of patterns.
- Work with the SRE Team to ensure efficient CI/CD tools and automation.

**Competencies**
- Meeting Timescales
- Managing Tasks
- Examining Information
- Documenting Facts
- Providing Insights
- Developing Strategies
- Interacting with People
- Articulating Information
- Examining Information