Senior Cloud Architect

Confidential Job Title: Senior Cloud Architect Duration: 12 months Location: Columbus OH (Need Local candidates) Description of Duties: 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical Architecture skills leveraging Cloud services and COTS products for different business problems: SalesForce, Azure, Amazon AWS 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical analysis to analyze a business problem, market analysis of cloud based solutions 30% of Total Work Effort: Technical writing leveraging Visio, Rational System Architect, Sharepoint, Avolution, Powerpoint, Word 10% of Total Work Effort: Troubleshooting Architectural guidance to cloud level issues Scope of Activities: • Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies. • Analyze enterprise business drivers to determine corresponding change requirements. • Analyze the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement. • Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise. • "Sell" the architecture process, its outcome and ongoing results. • Define the principles to guide solution decisions for the enterprise. • Design and lead the implementation of an ESA based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies. • Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring ESA compliance. • Develop a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state (as defined by the ESA). • Coordinate solution architecture implementation and modification activities. • Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations. • Consult with application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs. • Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the ESA. • Document all solution architecture design and analysis work. • Work closely with the enterprise program management office (EPMO) or project office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered Regards: ngampa AT charterglobal DOT com Strong with Cloud technologies and COTS