Cloud Solutions Architect

Retail Business Services is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, providing services to five East Coast grocery brands: Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the size and scale of the local brands to and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued. For more information, visit https://www.retailbusinessservices.com.

Primary Purpose:

Cloud Solution Architect will serve as a thought leader, work with a team of individuals who are committed to define

technical strategy, solution architecture, design and delivering end-to-end cloud platform needs to support product development

teams and platform reliability engineering teams.

You’ll demonstrate strong technical competence and business acumen through engaging in technology decision-making

discussions related to agility and business value surrounding the Azure Cloud platform.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

· Owns the cloud architecture solutions and partners with Domain Architect and IT Leadership to advance the cloud strategy

· Partners with Cloud Platform Leader to provide consistent input to the technology roadmap

· Evangelize & implement Azure Cloud services and lead building cloud-native services and solutions

· Gather requirements for all aspects of Cloud delivery, propose solutions and document.

· Create, document reference architecture, high-level & low-level designs, and design decisions

· Conduct workshops, forums, training and contribute to cloud development and delivery

· Collaborate with Enterprise architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams

· Technical alignment of Global/Regional/Local configuration and deployment architectures

· Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team

· Maintain quality documentation for enterprise-wide solutions, standards, and best practices.

· Establishes architecture framework for cloud-based delivery that enables CI/CD, cloud native development, and integration

with cloud providers

· Aligns cloud security to the overall enterprise architecture and security footprint

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

· 10 years of overall IT experience focused on infrastructure background preferred or software development

· 5 years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application

dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network connectivity and overall cloud strategies.

· 3 years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, Github etc...)

· Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture

· Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions · Experience with assessments of application portfolio and migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud · Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github. · Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS · Domain expertise of Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB’s, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity · Knowledge of Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM) · Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy). · Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other nonfunctional systems requirements · Self-Organizer, good negotiator, stakeholder management and manages opposing viewpoints · Strong communication skills – the willingness to engage discourse, ability to “make the case” and understand various tradeoffs in architectural discovery engineering · Negotiation skills, stakeholder management and strong ability to manage opposing viewpoints · Asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations

Preferred Qualifications:

(List any preferred qualifications (like to haves) for the role – could include advanced educations, certification(s), or knowledge)

· Certified Azure Solutions Architect required; Certified Azure DevOps preferred

· Prior experience as an Infrastructure Architect or hands on Solutions Lead

Retail Business Services is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities.

If you have a disability and require assistance in the application process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at tad@retailbusinessservices.com>

Salary : $124,000 - $157,000