Senior Cloud Architect

Summary

Join Kaeppel Consulting as a Senior Cloud Architect for a 6-month temporary role (with possible extension and hire option) in Erie, PA, potentially working remotely. You will create and validate IT architecture, aligning it with business requirements. This role involves building and migrating applications to AWS, conducting training sessions, sharing best practices, and authoring white papers. You will build relationships with clients and act as a technical liaison. The position requires a technical degree and AWS certification, with significant experience in cloud computing and related fields.

Requirements

Technical degree required

Responsibilities

• Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for moderately complex, transformative initiatives
• Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of moderate architectural impact
• Sets direction and achieves alignment around the IT strategy and determines the best path to achieve it
• Empowers the organization to efficiently make high-quality technology and process decisions that enable our business vision in environments that require moderate sophistication in relationship building and partnership
• This is an opportunity for a Sr IT Cloud Architect and will focus on building and migrating applications, software, and services on the Cloud (specifically AWS platform)
• Educate customers and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst technical architect community
• Author or contribute whitepapers on Cloud architecture and best practices
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
• Applies focus to driving change within people as change leaders, catalyzers, influencers, etc
• Aligns investments to business outcomes by providing the direction and artifacts for how people, processes, technology, and information combine to improve business capabilities
• Actively matures discipline based on industry and internal best practices
• Actively engages with partners to define business outcomes. Clearly articulates business and technical concepts so others can understand the context of our investments
• Provides outside-in (external, industry, customer, etc.) and outcome-based perspective to drive change that reduces expenses, enables business agility, and improves competitive position.  Ensures flexibility of change to future-proof investment by providing the ability to re-configure or pivot as necessary with less switching costs
• Drives collaboration across disparate groups on broad topics towards decisionable results and provides appropriate levels of open communication
• Utilizes sufficient facts and sound business judgment to influence decision makers in an evolving environment and captures those decisions in meaningful artifacts.  The artifacts are created as written accounts of collaboration
• Forms an effective partnership with other job families for results-driven outcomes. Presents a unified architectural perspective and function

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications or infrastructures
• 8+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, DevOps, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• 5+ years of design / implementation / consulting experience with distributed applications
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Masters preferable, Computer Science or Math background highly desired
• AWS solutions Architect certification