Senior Cloud Architect

IND Senior Staff Cloud Engineer - GCC017

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The Hartford’s Cloud Services organization is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect who will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of cloud solutions. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and modern cloud architectures. Your expertise in cloud technologies and best practices will be crucial in guiding the team and ensuring the successful delivery of strategic initiatives. You will work alongside enterprise architects, cloud engineers, developers, and security teams to ensure program goals and objectives align to our strategic direction.

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for designing and proving out technology solutions for fit into our Cloud Services portfolio of cloud products, tools, and services.
• Execute proof of concepts in partnership with engineering and security teams to validate proposed designs and solutions for fit into Hartford’s cloud environment.
• Work closely with application architects, developers, cloud engineers, and application security engineers to identify gaps to remediate and features required in our cloud portfolio.
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud solutions, ensuring they align with business objectives, technology standards, and industry best practices.
• Stay updated with the latest cloud technologies and trends and incorporate them into the architecture.
• Develop and maintain documentation for cloud architectures and processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications; establish and define details, definitions, and requirements of applications, components and enhancements.

Qualifications and Work Experience:
• Prior experience with large-scale cloud migration and cloud-native solutions.
• 5+ years proven experience in leading major cloud migration projects to AWS or GCP.
• 7+ years combined IT experience in engineering or operations
• Experience collaborating as part of large, complex cloud projects
• Experience working in Kanban or other agile team structure and delivery
• A demonstrated ability to rely heavily on influence over authority to drive deliverables.
• Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, and ability to clearly articulate messages
• Relevant certifications in cloud technologies

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