Hybrid IT Lead Architect, Cloud – Azure

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About the role

  • IT Lead Architect driving Eversource’s adoption of cloud technologies and managing cloud solutions. Overseeing cloud architecture and collaborating across teams to enhance efficiency and innovation.

Responsibilities

  • End to End responsibility for Eversource’s cloud platform.
  • Integrate any updated specifications and requirements into the systems architecture.
  • Research and recommend new Cloud technologies, platforms, and tools to improve efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of database architecture, design, and configurations; establish and enforce database standards and best practices.
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders to develop strategic plans with cross-functional teams to implement and assist operations.
  • Drive strategic conversations around cloud migration strategies.
  • Providing architectural recommendations to other teams on how to effectively use the cloud to drive down costs year to year.
  • Planning, estimating and sizing cloud platform enhancements.
  • Build and maintain internal customer relationships to grow the cloud platform champion network.
  • Engage partners across the organization, both technical and non-technical, ensuring platform continues to meet everyone’s needs, while documenting core requirements.
  • Lead and motivate dynamic team made up of cross functional skill set while providing focus to team in an agile environment.
  • Develop future state roadmaps, drive consensus, proof of concepts and demonstrate viable paths to modernize applications in a multi-cloud environment hosted on Azure.
  • Create and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates leveraging tools such as (Terraform, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOpsor Kubernetes) with an “Automation First” DevOps mindset.
  • Partner with product and project teams to work as cloud subject matter expert, helping guide them to the most effective solution.
  • Champions a structured approach to business application solutions from a selection, implementation and development perspective.
  • Champions cloud development best practices.
  • Directly assists in the development of a cloud architecture program including roadmaps and project portfolios for Eversource’s cloud platform.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar technical discipline is required.
  • Minimum of 10-12 years of experience in designing, developing, configuring, and implementing enterprise infrastructure solutions with various solutions from multiple vendors on a large enterprise scale.
  • Minimum 8-10 years recent exposure to Microsoft Azure.
  • Working knowledge of Containers, DevOps Pipelines, Modernizing Legacy software, PaaS and IaaS.
  • Microsoft Azure Certification specific to the role (Infrastructure, Solutions, Applications, Database, etc.).

Benefits

  • Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program.
  • Check out our careers site for an overview of our benefits programs.

Job title

IT Lead Architect, Cloud – Azure

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$150,060 - $166,730 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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