Cloud Architect, Technology Consulting

Job Summary

Whole industries have been disrupted and transformed in recent years by digital technology.

As a Technology Consulting professional, you’ll help businesses realize the value they can gain from their IT investments — supporting strategy and being a key growth driver. As part of a high-performing team, you’ll deliver exceptional client service — providing advice on how technology enablement, digital transformation and enterprise intelligence contribute to performance improvement, as well as how IT can act as multiplying effect during major program transformations.

As organizations look to leverage the advantage IT offers, we’ll work with you to develop the consultancy and analytical skills that you’ll need in today’s environment. Working on projects that cross borders and sectors, the experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else. So whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a self-driven Cloud Architect, Technology Consulting to plan and design the technology solution for client engagements.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will enable, drive and lead initiatives focusing on establishing and embedding cloud architecture & design governance across the organization.

• Lead initiatives for setting up cloud architecture & technology strategies, standards, governance and best practices for the whole organization.
• Lead the initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across organization.
• Architect & Design solutions for cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure) which are optimal, secure, efficient, scalable, resilient and reliable, and at the same time, are compliant with EY cloud standards and policies.
• Design strategies and tools to deploy, monitor, and administer Cloud applications and the underlying services for Cloud (e.g. Azure, AWS, private cloud).
• Architect and implement DevSecOps processes and CI/CD pipelines using tools like VSTS, Jira, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef.
• Build quick POCs and write some code for exploring new technology solutions.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Deep understanding of cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options (preferably in Microsoft Azure and AWS).
• Expert in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform/hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack).
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability etc.
• Deep experience in IAAS (with good fundamentals in network and security) as well as PAAS. Good understanding of all Azure services and ability to choose the right service for a workload among multiple Azure services preferred.
• Strategic business acumen and understanding of organizational strategy and ability to design information systems to deliver that strategy.
• Strong expertise in DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers, CI/CD and tools like VSTS, Jira.
• Experience with software and product development lifecycle (incl. coding, coding standards and reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment and operations).
• Strong understanding of one or more development platform .Net technologies (C#), Java / JavaScript.
• Familiarity in the following areas, but not limited to:
  • Front end / UI technologies including frameworks such as React/Angular.js
  • REST / Webservices (with high performance, multi-tenancy, global, scalable elements)
  • SQL, XML, JSON, Linux, ELK stack, Splunk, Solr, GIT, Ant/Maven, Jenkins
  • Familiarity with Data Ingestion, Analytics, AI technologies

To Qualify for the role, you must have

• At least 6-10 years of deep technology experience at very large enterprises or web scale product companies.
• At least 6-10 years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.) on cloud.
• Experience in presenting ideas, papers, patents to varied audiences.
• Certificates requirements:
  • Microsoft Azure related certifications
  • Other cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud are accepted

What We Look For

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.

What Working At EY Offers

EY offers a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud computing
• Azure
• AWS
• Architecture design
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Microservices
• Scalability
• Security architecture
• Distributed systems