Apps Modernization and Cloud Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Apps Modernization and Cloud Architect supports customers on their application journey to private/public cloud by identifying challenges and advising on the appropriate cloud platforms along with technical and operational solutions for applications and services as they are migrated to the cloud or for new application as they are developed on the cloud.

Qualifications:

The App Modernization and Cloud Architect will:
Analyse client’s existing applications and infrastructure, design target state architecture using cloud patterns and best practices
Propose and build repeatable patterns to accelerate and move hundreds of applications or greenfield implementations
Be the technology SME for the modernization/migration of applications/platforms in the customer ecosystem
Ability to drive across the application life cycle by adopting modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, Automation testing, Application security and tools
Responsible for the evaluation of technical risks and map out mitigation and placement strategies
Responsible for advising on cloud architecture solutions to effectively meet the strategic needs of the business
Work closely with sales team to guide and evangelize patterns to help in navigating the customer ecosystem to build farming strategies
Be the anchor to the practice teams to bring the industry best practices and enhance our offerings and solution eco systems
Support the delivery teams with guided approaches, skill development and bridging the customer gaps
Be up-to-date on current and new CSP products and services with certifications and understand how to apply them to business needs
Key Skills
Over 10+ years’ work experience in applications design and development for both greenfield/brownfield with over 4 years of experience working with Azure.
Excellent work exp in C# / Dot Net Core / MVC 5
Work exp in Azure PaaS – Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Storage account, Azure SQL, AKS, APIM
Azure Migration – On-prem to Azure Cloud ready solution
Good experience in application migration or modernization of .NET, databases and legacy to any public/private cloud with using both PasS or IaaS based implementation
Strong implementation knowledge of micro services, APIs, applying event streams for integration patterns.
Depth of technology experience in.NET and experience across varied patterns with broader full stack experience dealing with node js, DevOps, IaC, containers
Experience working with containerization of applications and deployment to target orchestration platform like Kubernetes or cloud native.
Experience with performing discovery and assessment of customers’ applications with knowledge of solving for target patterns.
Ability to work in a cross-functional team, as well as with various stakeholders.
Good written and verbal communication skills to effectively articulate complex cloud concepts