Job Description

Summary

Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect works with MKS Teams, IT, Cloud, and business stakeholders to effectively create an Enterprise Architecture framework. Develops a cloud first strategy that aims to enhance business value and acquire new opportunities. Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand and create an Enterprise Architecture framework with focus on Cloud Services. 
  • Develop and maintains the cloud strategy, discovering business and use cases within MKS 
  • Promote, negotiate, and deliver solutions in Cloud migration and Cloud based projects. 
  • Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud platform. 
  • Create cloud-based solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, IAM, etc. 
  • Work with stakeholders to support existing and new Cloud solutions 
  • Keep up to date with market and trends and evaluate new business/IT opportunities for the organisation. 
  • Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders to identify internal opportunities that bring value to the company. 
  • Design policies and guidelines related to cloud architecture 
  • Create operational documentation for cloud solutions 
  • Participate to architectural board, negotiating and evaluating opportunities for the business and IT. 
  • Coach, train, and mentor internal and external engineers to follow IT Architecture. 
  • Develop and maintain the Architecture Repository 
  • Develop a business continuity model 

    • Experience & Education

    Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Business Computing or other relevant disciplines (Master´s preferred, otherwise longer work experience) 
  • More than 10 years of experience in progressive infrastructure/software engineering/IT business domain 
  • Experience of working on cloud infrastructure and solutions (possibly AWS) 
  • Strong systems thinking, pragmatic and creative problem solving and analytical skills. 
  • IT Architecture certification (e.g., Togaf). 
  • Infrastructure Security experience 
  • Knowledge of Cloud best practices and guidelines. 
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. 
  • Proactive team player who is ready to learn, help and enjoys working with their teammates. 

    • Desirable

  • Experience (certification) with Project Management/Agile development methodologies. 
  • Business experiences or economic studies (MBA, Business School etc.) 
  • Quality management certifications (such as Lean or Six Sigma). 
  • Experience working for large scale enterprise applications. 
  • AWS or Terraform certification would be added advantage.
  • DevOps framework experience 
  • Orchestration frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes. 
  • Relational, non-relational database knowledge 
  • Experience in Configuration management: GIT, GITHUB, Codecommit. 

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