Technology Architect

Our Client requires subject matter expertise and additional capacity on their Cloud Architecture team. Duties will include support for designing and provisioning new cloud services, engaging with technical teams, vendors, and service owners. The primary focus of this position will be to ensure that core services are designed according to standards and available for consumption by developers and service owners.

Description:

Research and evaluate latest technology trends.
Architect new IT services, develop solution paper and test plans.
Evaluate current services, recommend remedial actions where required.
Assist in determining hardware/software requirements.
Collaborate with multi-disciplined teams on proof of concept and limited production roll outs.
Provide quality control on production implementations.
Communicate operation guidelines and policies to the clients.
Apply and interpret how the operation guidelines enhance the ministry’s way of doing business.
Review new services and technology requests by business area and assess their impact on the operational environment, giving recommendations for remediation.
Assist in developing project plans, schedules, and estimates pertaining to architectural deployment and services delivery.
Assist in developing task lists and resource assignments within the context of architectural planning and deployments.
Assist with implementation of IT infrastructure;
Document technical recommendations and provide technical advice and guidance to management, operations and project team members and within shared IT services.
Ensure change management processes are followed.
Make recommendations to project team members pertaining to issues, risks and client satisfaction.
Provide tracking and reporting of time


Skills
Cloud Architecture, Services, Solutioning

Type
Contract

Experience Required/Mandatory Skills
Experience providing leadership to project implementation teams and uses service management best practices to implement cloud services within operational processes.

Experience implementing cloud solutions in a multi-account, multi-cloud environment

Experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform, ARM templates, and/or Cloud Formation

Experience with solution and cost information to inform decision makers and support of business cases.

Experience in implementing cloud services in 2 or more of AWS, Azure or Google



Nice To Have Skills
Experience preparing and presenting comprehensive information to management. Including but not limited to contributing to presentations, briefing notes, and decision requests. Ability to assess the impact of technology changes to multiple environments and communicate this to multiple sectors/ministries/departments, senior SA management, and other impacted stakeholders.

Completion of cloud architecture training, specific with one or more hyper scale cloud providers. Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect certifications are preferred.

Experience deploying Cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code

Experience with Agile methodology



Location
Edmonton/Remote

Work Environment
6 months plus 1 year option

Hourly Rate
Negotiable