Cloud Enterprise Architect

Location Hanoi
Industry
Job reference 12392
Job type Permanent
Consultant email thao.le@manpower.com.vn
Consultant contact no 844 3974 45 74
Date posted May 12, 2022
RESPONSIBILITIES
1.    Derive future state technology architecture
- Works with EA peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, solutions and security architects) to analyze enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
- Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, leads the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture.
- Coaches, mentors and collaborates with technical subject matter experts and EA peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
- Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
- Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
2.    Define future Cloud state
- Works with relate stakeholders to derive the future state of Cloud usage in the bank. This includes defining the requirements, principles and operating models that allow Cloud usage in the bank
3.    Analyze and Evaluate Technology
- Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes. 
- Helps the enterprise architect define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
- Assists with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
- Oversees and facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture.
- Understands, advocates, and augments the business and IT strategies — and, more specifically, EA development and service delivery. Prepared to "sell" the EA process (overall, not just for enterprise technology architecture), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure enterprise success and use.
4.    Lead and Collaborate to Deliver Business Outcomes
- Oversees, or consults on, technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions. 
- Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture (ETA) to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
- Creates and delivers working, production-ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by agile teams 
- Works closely with the product managers, product owners and EA peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, security and solutions architects) to enable infrastructure agility, scalability and resilience to support required product needs throughout product lifecycle.
- Collaborates with business constituents, other EA team members, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.
- Documents necessary enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.

REQUIREMENTS
1.  Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
Relevant Knowledge/ Expertise
- Hands-on experience with cloud architectures, including the architectural design and deployment of cloud solutions
- Hands-on experience (deploying, operating, programming, etc.) with cloud providers (ex: AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Experience or knowledge of building cloud environments (public, private or hybrid)
- Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python     
- Knowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle
- Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS. 
- Knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of an enterprise technology architecture
- Knowledge of information principles and processes
- Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Understanding of network and security architecture
- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)
- Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
- Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments (such as inside-out, outside-in and outside-out)
- Solid understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
2.    Relevant Experience
- Minimum of five years of design and implementation experience in IT, with a deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies and active directory and protocols