Cloud Principal Architect

Credera Experienced Hiring Job Board•Chicago, IL

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across various industries. We continuously evolve our services to meet the needs of future organizations and reflect modern best practices. Our unique global approach provides tailored solutions, transforming the most influential brands and organizations worldwide. Our employees, the lifeblood of our company, are passionate about making an extraordinary impact on our clients, colleagues, and communities. This passion drives how we spend our time, resources, and talents. Our commitment to our people and work has been recognized globally. Please visit our employer awards page: https://www.credera.com/awards-and-recognition. The Cloud Capability is the think-tank and engine of Credera’s cloud expertise. We’re experts in all things cloud, ranging from cloud-native application architecture to cloud migrations and advisory. We leverage cloud-native technologies in AWS, Azure, and GCP to create solutions for our clients. Within the Cloud Capability, you may work in the following areas: cloud native development, cloud platform engineering, cloud data ingestion, cloud migration & adoption or cloud strategy. As a Cloud Architect, you will lead project-based teams while serving in a client-facing role. You will act as the primary architect and technical lead on projects to scope and estimate work streams, architect and model technical solutions to meet business requirements, and serve as a technical expert in client communications.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience delivering cloud enterprise solutions across multiple domains in industry or technology consulting.
Experience leading a team(s) that develops complex, high-volume, mission critical enterprise solutions.
A deep understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Technical knowledge and experience in many of these areas: Native Tooling AWS: Lambda, Aurora, EC2, Fargate, S3, etc. Azure: Functions, Queue Storage, Cosmos DB, App Services, etc. GCP: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, etc. Platform Engineering Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, etc. Security Engineering AWS: Cognito, IAM, Guard Duty, Security Hub, etc Azure: AD, Advanced Threat Protection, etc. GCP: Chronicle Virus Total, Cloud Monitoring, etc. FinOps CloudHealth, Cloudability, Billing Migration Advisor AWS: DMS, Snow cone/ball/mobile, etc. Azure: Database Migration Services, etc. GCP: Migrate for Anthos and GKE, Ramp, Data Transfer Services AI Tooling AWS: Bedrock Azure: AI Foundry GCP: Vertex AI Data & Privacy Engineering AWS: Clean Rooms, Athena, Glue, Quicksight, Redshift, etc. Azure: Databricks, Blob Storage, Data Lake Analytics, etc. GCP: BigQuery, Looker, Cloud Storage, etc. MarTech & AdTech AWS: Amazon Marketing Cloud, Amazon Ads Azure: Azure Synapse Analytics GCP: Google Ads, Google Analytics
A passion for technology and keep yourself up to date on the latest application and cloud development trends across all disciplines.
Accomplished at mentoring, leading, and developing others.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage with customers about their business, technology.
Ability to handle complex organizational dynamics to deliver solutions to client satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Lead project-based teams while serving in a client-facing role.
Act as the primary architect and technical lead on projects to scope and estimate work streams.
Architect and model technical solutions to meet business requirements.
Serve as a technical expert in client communications.