Principal Cloud Applications Technical Architect

The Principal Cloud Technical Architect is a highly skilled subject matter expert, accountable for designing, and may be required to implement complex cloud-based solutions that meet client's business and technical requirements. This role supports and influences sales teams by providing deep expertise in cloud computing technologies and architectures ensuring the effective design, deployment and operation of our cloud-based systems to meet client needs.,

• Collaborate with stakeholders and clients in the Insurance sector to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Viewed as a trusted technical advisor to the client and ensure technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives.
• Design and architect complex cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Provide pre-sales technical support and expertise in analysing client requirements, in conjunction with the client's current collaboration capabilities.
• Assess existing systems and develop migration strategies to transition on-premises applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• Design integration solutions to enable seamless data flow between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Define and enforce security best practices and compliance standards for cloud-based systems.
• Provide advice on the development and maintain cloud governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Provide guidance and support to development teams to ensure adherence to cloud architecture standards and best practices.
• Develop or produce the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Working with the relevant internal stakeholders, participate or lead in scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.
• Assist with the determination of outsourcing, product pricing and collaborates with others to develop an implementation solution.
• Responsible for influencing and guiding members of the Sales team and to ensure that they are equipped to close deals and maintain visibility of forecasting and sales pipeline in order to influence potential deals.
• On all assigned engagements, owns the proposed solution and transitions the build / implementation to the delivery team.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cloud technologies and architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and project managers, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.
  
  Extended client engagement skills coupled with extended technical consulting aptitude.
• Extended understanding of the vendor's products business and technology positioning.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members, contributing to their success.
• Extended product knowledge integrated with technology understanding.
• Extended knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, including microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Extended proficiency in cloud infrastructure technologies, such as virtual machines, storage solutions, networking, and load balancing.
• Extended understanding of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Extended familiarity with IaC tools and frameworks such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Extended understanding cloud design patterns, microservices, serverless computing, containers, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Extended knowledge such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other providers, understanding the specific services offered by each platform, including compute, storage, databases, networking, and security.
• Extended familiarity with DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Extended knowledge of integration technologies such as API gateways, messaging queues, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0., Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
• Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect.
Required Experience:
• Extended demonstrable professional technical experience within a large scale (preferably multi-national) technology services environment, specific to the Insurance sector,
• Extended experience as a Cloud Technical Architect or a similar role, designing and implementing cloud architectures for complex systems and applications.
• Extended experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions, preferably using leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Extended experience in project management methodologies ensuring timeous completion of client solutions.
• Extended experience with major cloud platforms.
• Extended experience with serverless computing platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Extended experience with automation and orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to streamline the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources.
  
  NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.