Cloud Solutions Architect Leader

$120,000 - $180,000/Yr

Sedgwick

Full-time - Senior

Remote

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Cloud Solutions Architect Leader is responsible for establishing, planning, and administering the overall policies and goals for cloud-based infrastructure services. This role involves designing and implementing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions, managing the company data center, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with architectural standards and best practices. The position requires a strategic outlook and the ability to lead cloud engineering teams while promoting a culture of caring and inclusivity within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Directs the architecture, implementation, and key support of cloud-based infrastructure appropriate to the long-term strategic goals.
• Drives the overall architecture and design of solutions for Sedgwick's cloud environments, translating functional application designs into infrastructure designs for delivery teams.
• Leads cloud engineering teams to ensure their deployments follow the published cloud reference architectures.
• Ensures that cloud-based services are delivered in a manner that complies with architectural and compliance standards, established best practices, and customer service goals.
• Works with appropriate stakeholders to develop strategies for migrating on-prem applications/solutions into the cloud.
• Leads discussions with appropriate groups to define best practices around cloud administration which includes deployment, monitoring, and alerting.
• Conducts technical audits of existing cloud deployments to ensure they are following current cloud architecture standards.
• Collaborates with the cloud FinOps team to discover areas for cost reductions and develop ongoing cost-saving strategies.
• Helps drive troubleshooting efforts during cloud-related outages.
• Responsible for liaison management to technology vendors providing cloud-specific infrastructure services.
• Researches and recommends cloud-specific structure tools and resources to satisfy operational requirements.
• Proactively recommends course of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness.
• Proactively promotes positive client/prospect relations.
• Provides direction for departmental financial and colleague resources issues.
• Proactively assists in defining strategies and direction for future infrastructure projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering, or related discipline with an IT focus required.
• Ten years of technology management experience with large-scale infrastructure systems or equivalent.
• A minimum of 5 years of related experience spanning at least three disciplines including systems architecture, network architecture, enterprise architecture, and datacenter architecture.
• At least 3-4 years of cloud solutions architecture experience, with multi-cloud experience preferred, especially in Microsoft Azure enterprise solutions.
• Technical certification(s) such as Certified IT Architect (CITA), Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA), Microsoft Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (MCSE), or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional highly preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and engineering practices (Terraform, Ansible, ARM).
• High-level fluency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Perl, or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and engineering practices (Jenkins, Octopus, Azure DevOps).
• Strong documentation skills including the creation of detailed reference architecture diagrams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k and matching, PTO, disability and life insurance, employee assistance, flexible spending or health savings account, and other additional voluntary benefits.
• Career development and promotional growth opportunities.