This senior level employee is primarily responsible for operating as a technical leader in

Cloud technology, overseeing the enterprise cloud migration effort while ensuring adoption of cloud native development in the application portfolios.


Essential Responsibilities/Qualifications:

• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.

• Has in depth knowledge of enterprise cloud offerings and platforms that are available in the market e.g. MS Azure, GCP, AWS etc.

• Has strong experience in migration of applications to cloud targets.

• As a technical leader this role will be primarily responsible for overseeing the enterprise cloud migration effort and ensuring the adoption of cloud technologies in the application portfolios.

• Has hands on experience in IBM Bluemix offering. Understands the Bluemix architecture and services that are usually available on Platform as a Service offering.

• Proficient in Understanding of Cloud Native principles and techniques such as containers/Docker; Microservices ;12 factor apps; test driven development; cloud platforms

• Develop cloud native strategies and solutions for client requirements, leveraging platforms and methodologies such as PaaS/ Agile/ DevOps etc.

• Knowledge of database design; source code testing frameworks; build pipelines

• Serves as a hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in an IBM Bluemix, Azure/AWS infrastructure environment

• Strong foundation of knowledge around MS Azure, IBM Bluemix and other cloud ecosystem

• Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications and services within MS Azure, IBM Bluemix and/or other cloud providers

• Lead and work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions

• Hands on experience in Splunk, Dynatrace and Kafka

• In depth knowledge in as a Service offerings on PaaS or IaaS e.g. Load Balancing as a a Service, Data Streaming as a Service etc.

• Manage and support full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using IBM Bluemix and MS Azure cloud computing environments

• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for our server-based technologies

• Act as subject matter expert on IBM Bluemix and MS Azure technology and architecture space

• Be involved in analysis and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance in the cloud environments

• Be involved in analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime

• Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.

• Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions.

• Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.

• Communicates effectively the cloud strategy, service offerings and roadmaps to customers and ensures enterprise adoption of cloud technologies.


Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) years' experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC).

• Minimum two (3) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years' experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

• Minimum two (2) years of experience in executive presentation skills with actively managing expectation of senior leaders (VP and above)


Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., VP level and above)

• Three (3) years of hands on development experience on a Bluemix platform

• Three (3) years of development experience using DevOps

• Master's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field.