Cloud Solutions Architect Manager – Contract in Jacksonville, FL

Overview:

The IT Cloud Solutions Manager will lead the planning, design, and architecture of enterprise-level infrastructure and platforms related to cloud computing. Cloud computing is a model of IT deployment whereby a provider delivers an IT solution as platform virtualization (Platform as a Service, PaaS); or as an application to customers for use as a service on demand (Software as a Service, SaaS); or infrastructure/resources (Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS). Has significant experience in system architecture, design, development and has developed a broad and deep expertise in software, hardware, data structures, and communications technology across multiple platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead creation of enterprise cloud strategy.
• Lead / Create architectural artifacts supporting active initiatives in an agile environment.
• Facilitate a collaborative approach to problem solving and make well-reasoned decisions.
• Mentor peers and junior associates, with the desired outcome being a highly qualified and world-class IT organization.
• Ensure standards are maintained, balancing consistency with flexibility to support business needs.
• Establish principals, standards, reference architectures, and strategies.
• Provide guidance for optimization of IT and business policies / procedures / processes.
• Oversee delivery projects to ensure architectural compliance and success.
• Create transitional architectural documents to aid in large and complex system planning and delivery.
• Facilitate all management, development, maintenance and performance initiatives related to the systems assigned to this position.
• Maintain an understanding of the systems assigned to this position.
• Actively participate in vendor user communities and other professional organizations to remain current and forward thinking in trends and application of assigned systems.
• Read technical journals, manuals and materials provided by vendors to learn about systems capabilities.
• Maintain an awareness of industry and market best practices to generate ideas for ongoing systems improvements.
• Support a strong business partnership focus throughout the department.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and four years of satisfactory.
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Expert level knowledge of two or more top tier cloud systems (AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.)
• Computer software experience in computer systems design, development, and analysis.
• A minimum of 5-7 years leading large scale architecture efforts for cloud deployments utilizing DevOps.
• Cloud applications programming, database administration, systems programming, data communications, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on complex projects.
• Minimum of seven years of experienced designing, administering, and implementing software solutions.
• Possess an outstanding record of professional experience that demonstrates progressive responsibilities and significant senior level management in a large-scale, complex Information Technology environment.
• Must be strategic thinker, able to set expectations, deliver against those expectations, and provide IT leadership for the Company.
• Equally significant qualifications include excellent leadership abilities and management skills with a proven record of strategic planning, functional transformation, change creation and management, budget and resource management, and personnel development.
• Extensive knowledge of architecture principals for on premise and cloud environments.
• Ability to communicate equally well with business and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; understanding of project management best practices.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Exposure / training / certification with Lean / Six Sigma process optimization.Cloud Solutions

Please call Lee Shipman (904) 512-6448