Cloud Solution Architect

1 week ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom Appcastenterprise Full time

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businessescan unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

**Bio**

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Government business unit as a Cloud Solutions Architect. We, amongst many things, deliver next generation digital capability to defence customers.

Our Digital Solutions team is leading the way in providing Cloud-centric solutions. Currently we are working on building an exciting cloud-agnostic product as part of our Cloud-Enabled Mission Services (CEMS) project, helping prepare our clients for thechallenges of tomorrow.

**Job Role**

The role of the Cloud Solutions Architect is to provide the critical skills necessary to help craft our vision for Cloud-based platforms and toolsets which will bring a strong digital advantage to our customers.

You’ll enjoy working as part of a team, typically being the most senior technical person on a project working with other architects, engineers and business analysts to get the best out of the team, allowing everyone to contribute the skillsets.You willbe an excellent communicator both internally within your project, as well as externally to senior customer stakeholders to facilitate decision making and co-ordinate design activities with related teams.

Your experience will cover software design, infrastructure, delivery methods and engineering approaches.You won’t be expected to be an expert in them all, but you should know enough about each to make informed decisions on the best approach to follow foreach.You’ll therefore know when to use Waterfall vs Agile, PaaS vs IaaS or Mongo vs Hadoop.You’ll be empowered to make decisions but will be part of a community of solution architects and engineers to bounce ideas off of and get assurance where you needit.

Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

**What background are we looking for?**

You will have experience in as many as possible of the following:

- Shaping and driving solution thinking for complex bids and delivery engagements
- Shaping solution designs following a structured methodology as appropriate to the project
- Overseeing the implementation of the design in collaboration with other team members such as Application, Data and Security Architects
- Ensuring the design meets key functional and in particular non-functional requirements, enabling through life scenarios of the solution to be satisfied
- Working with customer technical authorities to ensure that they have a clear understanding of architecture and design proposals at an appropriate level
- Working with Engineering teams to promote good practice in engineering methods, eg development, automation and testing
- Retaining overall ownership of solution through delivery and transition into operation
- Leading estimation efforts to develop an understanding of potential solution costs and delivery timescales
- Designing cloud environments with a focus on Azure and AWS and demonstrating technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments
- Producing designs aware of all aspects of the cloud environment including provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and security
- Delivery of cloud strategies, aligned with business objectives and with a focus on cloud migrations
- Nurturing cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive cloud adoption
- Acting as key stakeholder for validation of new cloud or SaaS solutions adherenceto architecture roadmaps
- Ensuring all cloud solutions adhere to security and compliance best practices
- Collaborating with Enterprise Architects, Data Platform, DevOps, and Integration Teams to ensure cloud adoption follows standard best practices
- A working knowledge of scripting and how it can or should be used to operate effective cloud systems.
- Experience in modern methodologies and cultures, such as Agile and DevOps.

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