Job Description:
• The mission of the Cloud Architect in the Enterprise Architect program is to facilitate business and IT alignment by creating, communicating, and improving the key principles and models that describe the branch’s future state and enable its evolution, especially with respect to cloud hosted infrastructure, cloud hosted application and hybrid cloud solutions.
• As new technologies are contemplated for adoption to support mission critical applications, the Cloud Architect leads teams of technical experts that help ensure the technologies are appropriate for the business requirements, compatible with existing infrastructure and that technologies are deployed in an optimal configuration including cloud/hybrid cloud solutions.
Minimum Job-Specific Skills/Qualifications Required:
• 10+ years’ experience in a senior management position directing complex large-scale technology programs and projects.
• 7+ years’ experience providing leadership and expertise during planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for enterprise level programs and projects.
• Experience directing teams of architects, programmers, analysts and testers in a variety of small to large-scale projects.
• 10+ years’ experience developing strategic and tactical goals and objectives and long-range roadmaps for mission-critical systems, including cloud technologies, and the necessary standards and processes to support these goals and objectives.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud vendors, platforms, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions
• Understand private, public and managed cloud scenarios.
• Private as well as public-sector experience, preferably in state government.
• Strong system analysis skills, experienced across the complete project lifecycle.
• Familiarity with ITIL based service delivery methodologies.
• Experience with cloud solutioning and migration projects.
• Experience managing programs and projects in an environment involving multiple datacenters: in-house datacenter, colo datacenter, hosted datacenter, Software as a Service, and cloud datacenter.
• Experience with migration of applications to the cloud.
• Strong communications skills, having the ability to communicate well with all levels of staff -- both technical staff and executive management.
• 7+ years of vendor management experience
• Experience developing consensus with disparate groups, sometimes with competing agendas.
• Experience developing enterprise technical policies for management consideration.
Additional Skills/Qualifications Desired for each Classification:
• Experience leading teams of technical experts and establishing a culture of innovation and excellence
• Experience performing program cost and procurement management functions
• Strong business acumen and the ability to determine ROI and TCO for both basic and enhanced functional requirements.
• Experience managing high visibility programs or project portfolios with multimillion dollar budgets.
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