Cloud Architect

As the Cloud Architect in Bank of Georgia, you will work with our IT team and business units. You will be responsible for researching new and optimizing/modifying existing cloud systems considering business requirements and the current IT landscape. Additionally, you must ensure that IT solutions are developed and implemented to satisfy enterprise-level requirements – such as availability, scalability, and reliability. If you are resourceful, creative, and team-oriented and can work collaboratively with others to deliver solutions, this position is for you!

General responsibilities:

• Work with IT architects, business units, and other stakeholders to gather information to prepare solution deployment and implementation documents. Using techniques like interviews, work sessions, storyboarding, and prototyping;

• Evaluate potential solutions, and services, including off-the-shelf and open-source components, to ensure that they meet business and IT requirements;

• Evaluating existing cloud applications, software, and services.

• Monitor the company’s cloud privacy in collaboration with IT security.

• Work closely with the FinOps team to optimize the costs of using cloud computing

• Identify the best cloud architecture options to help the company accomplish its strategic goals.

• Understand project scope, project goals, product functionality, and desired features;

• Evaluate customer needs/issues, analyze business and IT processes, assist in evaluating alternatives, and determine appropriate solutions with IT staff;

• Help determine the level of effort and time required for solution delivery

• Define user stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with business subject-matter experts and IT architects;

• Analyze high-level business and IT requirements and other functional requirements documents such as process flows, gap analysis, etc.

• Create documents, solution architecture diagrams, and other artifacts to promote sustainable knowledge management within the organization;

Required qualifications:

Work experience:

• 3-5+ years of experience designing, executing, and supporting Cloud solutions.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• AWS services (EC2, RDS, EKS, ALB, CloudFront and etc.);

• Azure and GCP services are a plus;

• Knowledge of different kind of software solutions (Microservices, DBMS, etc.), best practices and methodologies, including the ability to perform requirements tracing and validations during testing;

• Ability to effectively conduct requirements gathering sessions and concisely documenting the outcome;

• Strong communications and vendor negotiation skills;

• Ability to write in a clear and concise manner and to communicate effectively in Georgian and English;

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a self-starter;

• Experience with architecture diagram design;

• Proven experience creating user stories, use-cases, process flows, wireframes, and data mappings;

• Ability to plan and analyze workload in the scopes of existing systems and resources;

• Ability to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple and changing demands;

• Problem solving and consensus building skills;

• Customer focus and relationship building skills;

• Strong organizational and time management skills;

• Enjoying learning new technologies and putting them into use;

• Communicative, flexible, team player, a quick learner, with can-do attitude and independent initiative, creative and analytical thinking

• Kanban/Agile/Scrum experience is a plus.

What we offer:

·       Interesting and challenging job;

·       Teamwork with highly talented people;

·       Competitive base salary, performance bonus and social package.

Interested candidates, please fill in the information, attach your CV and submit by clicking “apply for position now” Deadline is November 30, 2024.