Senior Cloud Architect

Kaeppel Consulting is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to work for one of clients in Erie, PA. This is temporary role for a period of 6 months with a possible extension. This can be a REMOTE role for people in Erie, PA. There is an option to hire after a certain time-frame.
Position Summary
Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for moderately complex, transformative initiatives.  Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of moderate architectural impact.  Sets direction and achieves alignment around the IT strategy and determines the best path to achieve it.  Empowers the organization to efficiently make high-quality technology and process decisions that enable our business vision in environments that require moderate sophistication in relationship building and partnership. May perform duties in one or more of the following practices: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
 
This is an opportunity for a Sr IT Cloud Architect and will focus on building and migrating applications, software, and services on the Cloud (specifically AWS platform).

• Educate customers and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst technical architect community
• Author or contribute whitepapers on Cloud architecture and best practices
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
   

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications or infrastructures
• 8+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, DevOps, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• 5+ years of design / implementation / consulting experience with distributed applications
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Technical degree required, Masters preferable, Computer Science or Math background highly desired
• AWS solutions Architect certification

Duties and Responsibilities
Applies focus to driving change within people as change leaders, catalyzers, influencers, etc.
Aligns investments to business outcomes by providing the direction and artifacts for how people, processes, technology, and information combine to improve business capabilities.
Actively matures discipline based on industry and internal best practices.
Actively engages with partners to define business outcomes. Clearly articulates business and technical concepts so others can understand the context of our investments.
Provides outside-in (external, industry, customer, etc.) and outcome-based perspective to drive change that reduces expenses, enables business agility, and improves competitive position.  Ensures flexibility of change to future-proof investment by providing the ability to re-configure or pivot as necessary with less switching costs.
Drives collaboration across disparate groups on broad topics towards decisionable results and provides appropriate levels of open communication.
Utilizes sufficient facts and sound business judgment to influence decision makers in an evolving environment and captures those decisions in meaningful artifacts.  The artifacts are created as written accounts of collaboration.
Forms an effective partnership with other job families for results-driven outcomes. Presents a unified architectural perspective and function.
The first eight duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.
The position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.