Overview
The Senior Cloud Architect leads the technical design of Cloud Hosting solutions, providing direction for the adoption of public cloud providers, cloud-native architectures, and modern deployment models. This role focuses on evolving Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure services to support WFP's workloads.
Tasks Summary
- Lead the design of corporate solutions based on public Cloud providers services (SAAS, PAAS, IAAS);
- Lead the evolution of the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure cloud governance framework and compliance verification;
- Coordinate the integration and positioning of corporate solutions in the WFP Digital Core and the Corporate API ecosystem;
- Support the refactoring and design of existing solutions for migration to Cloud-Native deployments;
- Work on the evolution of Continuous Delivery pipelines within the WFP DevOps team;
- Lead the definition of new Architectural paradigms for Public Cloud services adoption;
- Provide guidance on cloud consumption monitoring, billing, quotas, and economics;
- Guide IT Security on modeling cloud solutions for security and data protection;
- Identify new cloud opportunities;
- Review and evolve current CLOUD accounts/tenants’ management;
- Support the corporate initiative to migrate existing services to the cloud;
- Design cloud native architectures of new software components;
- Ensure high technical quality of designed IT solutions and compliance with WFP standards;
- Provide direction, instructions, and guidance to Development Teams;
- Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture;
- Design cloud native data lake/data fabric solutions;
- Other duties related to software Architecture, as required.
Experience Requirements
- University degree or post-secondary education combined with a minimum of 8 years of equivalent working experience in software development or other related fields;
- At least 8 years of experience working on public cloud solutions;
- At least 8 years of experience managing/architecting Enterprise IT environments;
- Solid experience in managing complex AWS organizations with hundreds of AWS accounts;
- Experience in implementing the required security framework on production mission-critical AWS ecosystem;
- Experience in API ecosystems and strong knowledge of SOA/Microservices architectures;
- Knowledge of ERP Systems like SAP, SalesForce etc. and associated cloud applications;
- Experience writing technical articles, giving presentations, explaining technology;
- Knowledge Transfer Management is required;
- Mastery in developing software solutions;
- In-depth knowledge and proficiency with solution architecture, developing high-quality IT solutions, web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), Django/Python/PHP/.NET development stacks, Git versioning system, and GitFlow, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), Agile Scrum, and mainstream software design & development methodologies;
- Understanding of accessibility, security compliance, design principles behind a scalable IT solution, and the differences between delivery platforms.
Qualification Requirements
University degree or a post-secondary education combined with a minimum of 8 years of equivalent working experience in software development or other related fields.
