(Senior) AWS Cloud Architect

Job Purpose 

The job owns the technical design, selects technology solutions and hands on development to meet actual business needs. Participating in the construction of system architecture, building and ensuring architectural standards in accordance with business or development requirements of the bank and architectural blueprints. A Cloud Architect designs, builds, deploys, and maintains business applications and critical infrastructure inside the AWS Cloud. 

Key Accountabilities :

• Architecting, building, and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable cloud environments for the bank. 
• Understanding business objectives of the bank and creating cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives. 
• Moving systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the bank – aka digital transformation. 
• Keeping cloud environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.
• Determining the risk associated with third-party platforms or frameworks. 
• Looking for ways to improve operations within bank to digitize common tasks. 
• Designing, building, maintaining internal cloud applications for the bank. 
• Transferring data and internal processes to cloud architecture. 
•  Keeping data leakage and downtime to an absolute minimum. 
• Keeping up to date on best practices in cloud computing and making improvements to the cloud infrastructure of the bank. 
• Communicating with stakeholders and build applications to meet project needs. 
• Making hardware and software recommendations for the bank, based on needs of the project and bank