You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world-class business and technology experiences. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. This is a Lead Cloud Architect Position, responsible for the Private/Public Cloud Solution Architecture and Strategy. A broad technology background managing a variety of infrastructure and platforms with a good understanding of virtualization and converged infrastructures is a must. Experience in automation related to Performance and Capacity Planning is a plus, along with development experience in the platform.
Present architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization
Build cloud optimized reference architecture and contribute to architecture governance
Compare and evaluate various private, public cloud technologies and tools from technical, functional and financial feasibility
Drive proof of concepts that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our product partners how technology can be leveraged
Provide senior architectural leadership to all phases of the Cloud Program, including the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Cloud Application Architecture subprograms
Gather requirements; build functional specifications, timelines, adoption plans and other artifacts to support technology implementation
Work with stakeholders within and across Business Unit teams to build consensus and drive decision making
Work with various businesses to evaluate various technologies including setting up POC, evaluation criteria, managing professional services resources for design, architecture and implementation.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Qualifications
Incumbent must have minimum 10+ years’ experience in Technology Infrastructure with high transaction processing environments
Experience with elastically scalable, fault tolerance and other cloud architecture patterns
Experience migrating legacy applications to a service oriented, cloud optimized architecture within a large IT shop
Ability to build and deliver hands-on technology proof of concepts and demonstrations
Experience with RFP process including evaluating technologies and working with vendors for technology selection and implementation
Good understanding of various virtualization – vSphere, KVM and Hyper-V, cloud management technologies and tools as well as various cloud delivery models
Good understanding of various private, public, and hybrid cloud platform, continuous integration or delivery as a service, DevOps and distributed computing
Experience with OpenStack, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, CloudFoundry, Docker and other container/PaaS technologies
Incumbent must have proactive and entrepreneurial working style and strong ability to work without direction with breakthrough thinking, influencing and execution capabilities
Strong leadership, planning, execution, presentation, negotiation and multi-tasking skills--must be able to lead, review and execute multiple strategic project
Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills for various audiences, both business and technical
A bachelor’s or master’s(preferable) degree in Computer Science
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