Lead Cloud Architect

The organisation

Our client is a global financial service provider based in Amsterdam area.

The position

As a Lead Cloud Architect you will develop the new business demand on the platform and responsible for deploying the cloud computing strategy. This includes adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.

Therefore you will oversee the application architecture and deployment in the cloud environment, collaborate with Product Owners and Chief Product Owner in assuring that the cloud adoption is solid and aligned with the strategy. 
To remain competitive, there has been invested centrally to create “One Platform” (at present) with Microsoft Azure. It provides the scale and agility needed to make regular updates and quickly introduce new functionalities as they become available. The One Platform is expected to develop into a multi Cloud environment. 

Tasks & responsibilities

The Cloud Services is delivering 24/7 with teams across the world. But to enable and foster the value of the One Platform, it requires new ways of working for many parts of the current IT organization. For this reason you need to have modern skillsets to run and grow the maturity of the Cloud Services organization and dealing with the fast demand of our business.

The platform will be based upon the latest advances in software and infrastructure architecture including Cloud Native, Containers and Micro Services movements and related platforms and tools such as Kubernetes.

Candidate profile

You have the natural tendency to collaborate with customers, members and colleagues to achieve shared professional results, where short-term and long-term customer interest is at the forefront. Therefore you are able to make a careful consideration between risks and results and create and maintain required global architecture and design documentation. 

It is important to have extensive technical knowledge and understanding of cloud (preferably Microsoft Azure Cloud) infrastructure/services. Even as demonstrable architecture, design and implementation within an enterprise environment. 

The offer

The employees of our client are the most critical success factor. They want the employees to feel at home in the company. Our client offers you compensation and benefits that are competitive in the market and seek for deployment of talent by investing in your career. Secure the employability of their employees is the keystone of the human resources policy. 

Interested?

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