Senior Associate Cloud Technical Architect

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About the Role

The Senior Associate Cloud Technical Architect is a developing subject matter expert, responsible for supporting the design and may be required to implement cloud-based solutions that meet client’s business and technical requirements. This role supports sales teams by providing expertise in cloud computing technologies and architectures ensuring the effective design, deployment and operation of our cloud-based systems to meet client needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives.
• Designs and architects less complex cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Provides pre-sales technical support and know-how in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current collaboration capabilities.
• Assesses existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Designs integration solutions to enable seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Defines and implements security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems.
• Supports the development and maintain cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Provides support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices.
• Develops or produces the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses, and assist with determination of outsourcing and implementation solution development.
• Influences and guides members of the Sales team to ensure they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, including setup and delivery, and on all assigned engagements owns the proposed solution and transitions the build/implementation to the delivery team.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cloud technologies and architectures and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and project managers, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
• Specifically relating to opportunity pursuit this role will evaluate each opportunity for alignment with organizational capabilities and business policy, prepare the executive summary that outlines all of the information gathered from the client in regards to their needs, document the proposed technology solution, document the statement of work along with all labor requirements, work with the relevant internal stakeholders to prepare the pricing format that will be supplied to the customer, perform the actual solution design and prepare a parts list outlining equipment to be provided, develop and manage a proof-of-concept as such may be required, engage all technical resources required for an accurate solution design, prepare a network diagram outlining the proposed solution, document all deliverables and what constitutes a successful completion, review the final parts list as supplied and submit all information to the applicable bid team for final assembly, verify the proposal’s accuracy and sign off on the final documents to be presented to the client, and assist during the final presentation to the client as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates good client engagement skills coupled with technical consulting aptitude.
• Understanding of the vendor’s products business and technology positioning.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, contributing to their success.
• Broad product knowledge integrated with technology understanding.
• Good knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, including microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure technologies, such as virtual machines, storage solutions, networking, and load balancing.
• In-depth understanding of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with IaC tools and frameworks such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Multi-faceted knowledge such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other providers, including compute, storage, databases, networking, and security.
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, load balancing, and firewall configurations.
• Knowledge of VPNs, VPC peering, and hybrid connectivity options between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), encryption, data protection, secure network configurations, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.
• Proficiency in cloud storage solutions such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
• Understanding of different database options including relational databases (e.