Solution Architect

Mandatory Skills Description:

- 5 plus years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
- Previous experience leading and mentoring Cloud teams/Communities of Practice. NTH
- Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams/communities of practice. NTH
- Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Microsoft Cloud Products and hands on experience with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Prior experience in roles such as Azure engineering, development, or Azure-focused DevSecOps.
- Familiarity with Azure cloud native components and products.
- 5 years’ demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab.
- Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree.
- Knowledge of following technical stack: Solution Architecture, Microsoft Azure Networking, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Certificates like: AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400, AZ-305
- Proven track record working in agile environments
- 5 years’ hands on experience with Azure products and services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).
- Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
- Sound understanding of financial markets.

Project Description:

In this role, you'll be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) reporting directly to the Director for Azure Engineering.

This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how company leverages the cloud platform:
- Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
- Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Product engineering.
- Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance

Responsibilities:

- Lead and guide multiple communities of practices, including Lead Platform Engineering managers and platform engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
- Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the community of practice leads and teams; the “why,” the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc.
- Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog.
- Lead key strategic projects/initiatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable operational excellence.
- Ensure feedback and learnings are obtained and utilised as early and often as possible.
- Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security, and automation.
- Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of Azure Landing Zone platform.
- Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.