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Visa · 2 days ago

Senior Director, Cloud Architect

Foster City, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Director

$154K/yr - $250K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership in building proposals, defining, and delivering client engagements in the Cloud domain.

Lead large-scale, complex Cloud transformations including delivering business use cases and outcomes for clients.

Assist from pre-sales to delivery phase by leading customer conversations, building proposals and executing signed deals.

Grow Professional Services Cloud Practice Thought leadership and visibility by activities such as developing whitepapers, case studies, speaking engagements etc.

Work in partnership with Client’s counterparts to drive current state assessment and define target state architecture and roadmaps.

Assess client maturity in adoption of Cloud platforms and technology and suggest improvements.

Create strategy for clients for cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations.

For clients, enable cloud technologies, including configuration of environments, container deployment, and implementation of development tools.

Drive cloud migration initiatives, manage a team of cloud professionals, and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.

Provide day-to-day leadership in client Cloud transformation engagements.

Responsible for the success of Client Cloud platform implementation and Cloud migration with adherence to Client timeline and budget

Address risk and issues in partnership with the broader Professional Services leadership team.

Manage overall architecture, design, implementation, and testing of Cloud platform projects.

Provide hands-on leadership to a geographically diverse team of architects, engineers, technical product owners and analysts.

Stay abreast of cloud technology trends, advancements, and best practices.

Build and maintain architecture artifacts, design processes and best practices, provide technical oversight to architects and engineers.

Manage partnership with cloud technology providers.

Present technical updates and client progress to leadership and stakeholders

Prototype solutions and develop proof-of-concept.

Promote cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.

Qualification

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Cloud ImplementationsAutomation ToolsDevOpsAgile DevelopmentCloud Service ProvidersCloud Technology TrendsContainer TechnologiesSolution ArchitectureWeb ServicesDatabasesFront-End TechnologiesBack-End TechnologiesCloud Data TechnologiesCloud Native ArchitectureDevOps ToolsLarge-Scale TechnologiesSoftware DevelopmentJavaJavaScriptC/C++C#.NETPythonPHPTeam ManagementSOW NegotiationClient ManagementProject DeliveryTechnical DesignRelationship Management

Required

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Deep experience in Cloud implementations for Clients with one or more of the following platforms - Google, Azure, AWS

Deep experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes

Experience with automated DevOps and CloudOps

Experienced with agile development process and methodologies.

Strong knowledge of cloud service providers, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management and container technologies.

A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures, containers and serverless technologies

Expertise in solution architecture including web services, databases, front-end, back0end technologies.

Certifications in Google, Azure Cloud, or AWS

Knowledge of cloud data technologies such as data lakes.

Experience interacting with external vendors.

Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling and DevOps

Proven experience with large scale distributed & cloud-based technologies such as Kubernetes, Hazelcast, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Containers, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop.

Large-scale software/application development with coding experience in some of the following: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, PHP etc.

Experience managing a team of onshore and offshore architects, developers, and analysts.

Exposure to SOW negotiation, client management, project delivery

Ability to define competitive and innovative technical design and get client buy-in

Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.

Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels.

Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders

Strong relationship management skills

Solid business acumen

Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation, and accountability.

Fast learner on both technical and business side

Strong customer centric mindset.

Comfortable operating in a matrix setup

Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.

Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.

Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.

Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Preferred

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience