IT Lead Architect, Cloud – Azure
Eversource Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,060 - $166,730 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAzureCloudKubernetesTerraform
About the role
- End to End responsibility for Eversource’s cloud platform.
- Integrate any updated specifications and requirements into the systems architecture.
- Research and recommend new Cloud technologies, platforms, and tools to improve efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of database architecture, design, and configurations; establish and enforce database standards and best practices.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to develop strategic plans with cross-functional teams to implement and assist operations.
- Drive strategic conversations around cloud migration strategies.
- Providing architectural recommendations to other teams on how to effectively use the cloud to drive down costs year to year.
- Planning, estimating and sizing cloud platform enhancements.
- Build and maintain internal customer relationships to grow the cloud platform champion network.
- Engage partners across the organization, both technical and non-technical, ensuring platform continues to meet everyone’s needs, while documenting core requirements.
- Lead and motivate dynamic team made up of cross functional skill set while providing focus to team in an agile environment.
- Develop future state roadmaps, drive consensus, proof of concepts and demonstrate viable paths to modernize applications in a multi-cloud environment hosted on Azure.
- Create and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates leveraging tools such as (Terraform, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOpsor Kubernetes) with an “Automation First” DevOps mindset.
- Partner with product and project teams to work as cloud subject matter expert, helping guide them to the most effective solution.
- Champions a structured approach to business application solutions from a selection, implementation and development perspective.
- Champions cloud development best practices.
- Directly assists in the development of a cloud architecture program including roadmaps and project portfolios for Eversource’s cloud platform.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar technical discipline is required.
- Minimum of 10-12 years of experience in designing, developing, configuring, and implementing enterprise infrastructure solutions with various solutions from multiple vendors on a large enterprise scale.
- Minimum 8-10 years recent exposure to Microsoft Azure.
- Working knowledge of Containers, DevOps Pipelines, Modernizing Legacy software, PaaS and IaaS.
- Microsoft Azure Certification specific to the role (Infrastructure, Solutions, Applications, Database, etc.).
Benefits
- Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program.
- Check out our careers site for an overview of our benefits programs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud architecturecloud migration strategiesInfrastructure as Code (IaC)database architectureDevOpsContainersPaaSIaaSmodernizing legacy softwareagile methodology
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationstrategic planningrelationship buildingteam motivationcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingtechnical guidancedocumentation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMicrosoft Azure Certification