Cloud Architect

NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

General Responsibilities:

The Cloud Solutions Architect oversees application architecture and deployment in cloud environments.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supports the customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding.
• Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap.
• Architects solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments while orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud-native, etc.) as deemed necessary.
• Ensures that all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Develops good relationships with key customer IT decision-makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Shares insights, best practices, and connects with Engineering teams to remove key blockers.
• Assesses the customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.
• Develops complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Maintains technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborates and shares with the technical community.
• Promotes Azure Platform with customers, partners, and external communities.
• Provides operational support of existing data center and middleware technologies, e.g. – servers, databases, backup/recovery.
• Proactively identify new and emerging technology solutions to support business excellence.
• Incorporates existing enterprise technology standards, security, and capabilities into solutions as applicable
• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.
• Experience in software development by providing technical solutions such as system architecture, infrastructure design, and database structure.
• At least 4 years of experience in Cloud Solutions Architecture.
• AWS Certification is a plus.
• Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e. Azure, AWS) required experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc.), API management, microservices frameworks, etc.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud) required.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get a consensus on solutions/projects. Experience in solving customer problems through cloud technologies.
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management are required.
• Proven success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.
• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts.
• Willing to do hybrid work set up in BGC Taguig