Cloud Architect

Our client is one of the world’s leading shopping Center companies with iconic retail destinations in London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles among its portfolio.

As an Cloud Architect, you will be a member of a cross-functional team to improve the technical ecosystem and experience for both our customers as well as our employees. .  We thrive on iterating quickly and are the force behind the technology that empowers our business across the company  The successful candidate must be able to understand the benefits and challenges of cloud architectures, have implementation experience in deploying innovative technologies that cross the security, infrastructure, information, and application technology domains.

We are looking for an Cloud Architect with:

• 10+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, development, unit testing and operation of distributed, fault-tolerant applications with particular attention to security, scalability, performance, availability and cost/revenue optimization.
• Proven team leadership skills and able to demonstrate a well-organized approach to architecture and technical evaluations. Must be able to communicate clearly with all levels in the organization, and able to professionally represent the company with customers.
• Demonstrated expertise with overseeing and facilitating infrastructure software evaluations and selections according to the defined technical review process.  Coordinate solution feasibility studies and/or pilots to facilitate evaluation as necessary.
• Deep knowledge with Dev-ops integration systems such as Ansible and Puppet. Architecture design must include clear dev-ops integration plans. “Stress-free” dev-ops maintenance is of high importance. Automation friendly.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with large AWS deployments, including being able to scale and still being secure.
• Demonstrated expertise with REST services and Microservices.
• Working knowledge of Haddop, RedShift, Elasticsearch, Java as well as analytics tools like R, Kinesis or similar.
• Expertise in broad and deep research, often going outside of their area of individual experience. Able to synthesize conclusions from research, compare various solutions and plot complex technology roadmaps for different.
• Experience with architecting high volume web systems or large transaction client-server systems; experience with mobile and other emerging technology trends.
• Ability to contribute to, and balance delivery against, multiple projects/demands simultaneously.
• Broad experience across business, application, information, infrastructure and security architecture domains.
• Broad experience across business analysis, product design, engineering, QA, operations and sustainment in a large corporation / enterprise environment.
• Deep technical experience in consumer and employee facing enterprise systems.
• Analyze new and changing SaaS and PaaS solutions, technology and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Document cloud architecture design and analysis work, including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
• Adhere to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
• Establishing, maintaining and publishing customer communications related to the cloud architecture.
• Experience with Data lakes and Data governance is a big plus.
• Ability to create detailed short and long term roadmaps (1-5 years).

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.