Expert Cloud Architect

About the position

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states. But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities. When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing. Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding the technical requirements and constraints for key architectural drivers of cloud computing.
• Designs, coordinates, and maintains the architecture of DTE’s cloud-based applications and services.
• Identifies specific technology components and solutions that satisfy business, technology, security, and regulatory objectives.
• Assesses the project requirements of a cloud-based solutions and strategies.
• Provides technical guidance for cloud services and areas such as cloud application development, scalability, and integration.
• Optimizes the efficiency of cloud applications by monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating with other business units.
• Coaches junior team members in technical and agile principles while working on various product teams to support a myriad of complex digital initiatives across the business.
• Governs the cloud environments that host DTE cloud applications by creating and maintaining documentation of cloud architectures, technical operations and process workflows.
• Benchmarks and conducts research of emerging technologies to determine impact to our cloud computing strategy and provides solutions to leadership for positive impact to DTE cloud-based programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems discipline and 8 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 5 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR
• Associate degree in information systems discipline and 10 years of experience in technology field, inclusive of 5 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies; OR
• High school diploma or GED and 12 years in technology field, inclusive of 5 years with systems development and systems architecture, software architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives leveraging agile and development and operations (DevOps) methodologies.
• Microsoft Azure Architect certification or 3 years’ experience as a cloud solution architect in Microsoft Azure.

Nice-to-haves

• TOGAF 9.2 Certification required.
• Experience developing and implementing strategies for deploying and automating cloud infrastructure and platform services, including zero downtime deployment strategies such as red/black or blue/green deployments.
• Experience developing and implementing strategies for horizontally and vertically scaling, sync/async, BASE/ACID, multi-zone, and/or multi-region applications.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycles and cloud economics, including knowledge of consumption-driven total cost of ownership.
• Knowledgeable in the security implications of public & private cloud infrastructure design.
• Understanding of network architectures suitable for different cloud topologies with familiarity with SLO, SLA, and OLAs for cloud services and organizations.