Azure Cloud Architect

Job summary

Thales is seeking an Azure Cloud Architect to lead the transformation of how the organization develops, deploys, and manages accredited software solutions. The role involves designing next-generation architectures, providing strategic support, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

Qualifications

• Ability to facilitate engagement with peers
• Strong team orientation and ability to enable others
• Eager to share knowledge and develop team members' security awareness
• Commitment to continuous improvement and learning new skills
• Curiosity about latest developments and tools in expertise areas
• Open-minded and adaptable to new ways of working (agile)
• Experience in supporting Cloud Hosting and delivering DevSecOps in an agile environment

Responsibilities

• Act as an industry expert in cloud, infrastructure, and network technologies
• Serve as a leader and subject matter expert to guide the platform team
• Design and architect next generation architectures across multiple domains including storage, compute, network, containerisation, and cloud native applications
• Build solution architectures that align requirements, reference architectures design patterns and technology standards
• Lead collaboration with project teams, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security enterprise architects to develop and deploy comprehensive solution architectures
• Develop extensible architectures to enable future technology agility
• Provide strategic support to staffing teams and key stakeholders with thought leadership, program design principles and implementation support
• Research, analyse and recommend technical approaches for solving difficult architectural problems
• Provide technical and governance direction to internal and external implementation teams
• Participate in vendor request for proposal (RFP), tool selection process and sourcing negotiations for new tools and applications
• Analyse business processes, data flows, and IT artefacts to understand system operations
• Weigh risk, ROI, schedule, and budget considerations to provide solution recommendations
• Ensure projects are delivered in line with Information Reference Architecture and defined standards
• Define and maintain reference architectures
• Lead the creation of IT strategies and roadmaps within the cloud domain
• Effectively communicate and influence others towards future state solutions
• Maintain technology strategy, vision, architectural roadmaps, and engineering implementations
• Ensure enterprise standards are established and followed across multiple projects
• Explore new technologies and industry trends to drive innovation
• Create and maintain training materials and technical position papers for solution delivery teams

Skills

Relocation