Job Description
Principal - Cloud Architect - Business Consulting Principal - Business Consulting
Atlanta, GA, Basking Ridge, NJ, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
State / Region / Province
Country
USA
Salary min
123500
Salary max
154500
Domain
Consulting
Interest Group
Skills
Company
ITL USA
Requisition ID
134216BR
Infosys Consulting is currently seeking a Principal – Cloud Architect for their Technology Transformation practice.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8+ years of experience in the management consulting industry. Candidate must be an experienced Cloud practitioner, with experience delivering IT and Cloud based strategies for clients across multiple Cloud solutions. Candidates must be comfortable working at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization develop Cloud solutions to foster business values and to achieve organizational outcomes. Candidate must have evolved facilitation skills and be comfortable in mentoring, training and/or offering professional advisory services. This is a highly visible role with exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, which will require a combination of core technical skills and soft people skills to have success.
- Possess a good understanding of the major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for comparative analysis and advisory on CSP selection
- Deep understanding of customers unique needs in any of the industries (Financial services, Health & life science, retail, manufacturing and SURE)
- Provide expert guidance and insights of Industry cloud to support client in evolving cloud landscape in their organization
- Provide guidance and support to leverage full potential of cloud services and best practices to migrate applications, modernize applications and innovate to meet based on organization and industry needs
- Design art of the possible Cloud end state for an organization, conduct gap analysis between the target Cloud capabilities and traditional IT capabilities to define the Cloud adoption strategy and roadmap
- Evaluation the implications of Cloud adoption on the IT Operating model and support establishing a Cloud center of excellence
- Architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions tailored to the customer needs(multi-tenancy, Platform as a service, micro services, container services)
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid Cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other Cloud services
- Define and enforce Cloud solutions and architecture best practices & guiding principles
- Define Cloud adoption and migration strategies and implementation plans
- Collaborate cross-functionally with customers to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure and applications
- Stay abreast of the latest cloud services (AWS / Azure / Google), features, and best practices to ensure customers benefit from their knowledge
- Perform Proof of concepts to prove viability, scalability and feasibility of solutions to the customer business needs
- Own and manage contributions to business development proposals and sales pursuits for consulting and/ or transformation engagements
- Work as a member of a client engagement delivery team, typically split across multiple geographies and or industry domains, own and deliver high-quality outputs on time
- Build, manage and sustain relationships with senior level client managers
- Demonstrate thought leadership by creating consulting go-to-market offerings and uplift Infosys brand by publishing market facing thought papers
Job description
Infosys Consulting is currently seeking a Principal – Cloud Architect for their Technology Transformation practice.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8+ years of experience in the management consulting industry. Candidate must be an experienced Cloud practitioner, with experience delivering IT and Cloud based strategies for clients across multiple Cloud solutions. Candidates must be comfortable working at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization develop Cloud solutions to foster business values and to achieve organizational outcomes. Candidate must have evolved facilitation skills and be comfortable in mentoring, training and/or offering professional advisory services. This is a highly visible role with exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, which will require a combination of core technical skills and soft people skills to have success.
- Possess a good understanding of the major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for comparative analysis and advisory on CSP selection
- Deep understanding of customers unique needs in any of the industries (Financial services, Health & life science, retail, manufacturing and SURE)
- Provide expert guidance and insights of Industry cloud to support client in evolving cloud landscape in their organization
- Provide guidance and support to leverage full potential of cloud services and best practices to migrate applications, modernize applications and innovate to meet based on organization and industry needs
- Design art of the possible Cloud end state for an organization, conduct gap analysis between the target Cloud capabilities and traditional IT capabilities to define the Cloud adoption strategy and roadmap
- Evaluation the implications of Cloud adoption on the IT Operating model and support establishing a Cloud center of excellence
- Architect and deploy resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions tailored to the customer needs(multi-tenancy, Platform as a service, micro services, container services)
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid Cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other Cloud services
- Define and enforce Cloud solutions and architecture best practices & guiding principles
- Define Cloud adoption and migration strategies and implementation plans
- Collaborate cross-functionally with customers to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure and applications
- Stay abreast of the latest cloud services (AWS / Azure / Google), features, and best practices to ensure customers benefit from their knowledge
- Perform Proof of concepts to prove viability, scalability and feasibility of solutions to the customer business needs
- Own and manage contributions to business development proposals and sales pursuits for consulting and/ or transformation engagements
- Work as a member of a client engagement delivery team, typically split across multiple geographies and or industry domains, own and deliver high-quality outputs on time
- Build, manage and sustain relationships with senior level client managers
- Demonstrate thought leadership by creating consulting go-to-market offerings and uplift Infosys brand by publishing market facing thought papers
Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required. Will also consider four years of progressive experience in the specialty in place of every year of education
- Associate or professional-level certification in AWS or Azure or Google Cloud
- 8 or more years of experience in design/implementation/consulting experience with enterprise technologies, Cloud migration and deployment; Database and Middleware
- At least 4+ years working with AWS / Azure / Google Cloud services, with a good solid understanding of core services. Valid AWS / Azure certifications preferred
- Strong communication & collaboration skills with ability to translate complex technical topics to senior client stakeholders
- Ability to travel up to 80% will be required in the future
- Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time.
Preferred Qualifications: - Big 4 consulting or equivalent experience in a leadership capacity
- Hands-on experience of DevOps tools and DevOps practices for Cloud workload deployments
- Hands-on experience with microservices design, and distributed applications, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the Cloud (AWS, Azure)
- Working knowledge of Cloud software tools and migration methodologies
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis, and design
- Experience working in a vertical environment preferred
- Ability to communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations
- Demonstrates ability to conduct research and present information across levels
- Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture (e.g.: TOGAF, Zacman, IAF, ITIL, COBIT)
This job description may not cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties and responsibilities that are required of the employee.
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits: -- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
- Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Lega]]>
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