Summary
The Cloud Architect will help with application migration and data synchronization between local drives, third-party applications, and our Cloud instance. Once delivered, the team will begin working on delivering features to our clients including a custom dashboard for our collaboration platform. Candidates should be comfortable working in a small team environment where multiple projects will be running simultaneously.
Responsibilities
- Track the benefits of Cloud migrations/strategies/technologies and report them regularly to Senior Leadership; this will include tracking the actual Azure project deliverables, as well – This reporting piece is very important for success in this role!
- Plan and facilitate all required IT security reviews of the applications identified for continued Cloud migrations.
- Own the Program Budget and ensure traceability of the program spend.
- Help to identify priorities and resource requirements for each project or program.
- Create strategic and tactical recommendations to Cloud Management to ensure the successful delivery of projects into the Cloud ecosystem.
- Prepare assigned project resources with necessary project-related information, ensuring proper understanding of project requirements, roles, responsibilities, work processes, and success criteria.
- Implement the necessary project management infrastructure (project plans, issues lists, communication plans) for successful migrations.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience building and managing scalable Cloud services.
- Extensive experience documenting Cloud environments, migration processes, plans, and so on.
- In-depth experience with Microsoft Office 365, as well as Azure Cloud strategies, migrations, and deployments; including a proven track record of delivery across Cloud/SaaS related projects and programs.
- Solid understanding of Citrix Enterprise and SD-WAN.
- Fundamental understanding of .NET Development (C#.NET, ASP.NET).
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex technical subject matter and communicate the business and operations impact of choices to business and IT leaders (in other words, the ability to speak to people in 'their language').
- Experience with architecture designs and concepts, including but not limited to: Security, High Availability, Recovery, Performance, Monitoring/Operations Design, and Application Architecture.
- 5+ years Project Management experience with large and complex enterprises.
- Ability to understand and leverage network, server, and monitoring system APIs to automate provisioning.
This is fully onsite 6-month Contract-to-Hire with our Minneapolis, MN client. Employee benefits include Medical/Dental Benefits, Unlimited Vacation, Stock Ownership and 401(k). H1-B Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. No third-parties, please.
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