Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Azure

Job Family:

IT Architecture/Cloud

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

The Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Azure will be a technology planning and governance role with enterprise level influence at Guidehouse. This role will play an integral role in helping driving the maintaining and improving the roadmap of the company’s technology strategy and processes. Act as a leader and set architecture direction for strategic technology projects. This role will partner with internal technology groups to ensure that proposed technical solutions align with the company’s overall objectives. It will also serve as a strategic mean member to business & IT, internal innovation teams, and IT functional areas by helping them identify and take advantage of new opportunities while providing guidance and ensuring solutions align with the business and IT strategy.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Drive enterprise architecture activities with a ‘business outcome’ lens

• Build and evolve a business technology strategy including the strategic roadmap for IT systems

• Work on developing IT strategies and roadmaps to drive investments in enterprise capabilities

• Establish application and technology portfolio management processes and tools to provide transparency and reduce technical debt

• Identify opportunities to digitize business processes and experience with internal innovation teams

• Maintain architecture governance, technology standards processes and reference architecture development

• Evaluate business, information, application, and technology views of the solutions and identify risks

• Remain intimate and knowledgeable on cloud technologies and cloud and hybrid cloud frameworks

• Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies

• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand and translate business objectives into technological solutions

• Define and develop audit and review checklists ensuring compliance to enterprise standards

• Define and improve architecture processes and artifacts

• Contribute to peer reviews, technical audits, and technology standards processes

• Collaborate with and mentor other enterprise engineers, junior architects

• Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree plus a minimum of 8-10 years of experience OR 12 years of professional experience may be substituted in lieu of degree

• Ability to obtain a National Security Clearance or a U.S. Federal Government Public Trust

• Demonstrated ability to learn and document new technologies/solutions

• Must be able to work East Coast US business hours

• Experience supporting Microsoft Azure and Azure Gov IaaS, SaaS, PaaS

• Experience working with infrastructure automation, Terraform, PowerShell, DevOps

• Design end-to-end solutions on Azure, considering scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization.

• Create architecture diagrams, documentation, and best practices for implementation.

• Deep understanding of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and more

• Strong knowledge of data management concepts, network engineering concepts and architectures

• Strong knowledge of security controls and basic security architecture patterns and practices

• Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex technology solutions

• The ability to “think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype

What Would Be Nice to Have:

• Experience with ServiceNow is a plus

• Experience working in an ITIL environment

• Experience working with C-Suite level executives

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dent