Senior Cloud Architect

Position Type
Full time

Type Of Hire
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired
Bachelor of Computer Science

Travel Percentage
0%

FIS is the world's largest provider of banking and payments technology platforms and a global leader in consulting and outsourcing solutions. With a long history deep rooted in the financial sector FIS serves more than 14,000 institutions in over 110 countries. FIS provides software, services and outsourcing of the technology that drives financial institutions. We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned Cloud Architect to join our team in Sydney.

What You Will Be Doing
As an IT Architect you will be responsible for guiding the Application Development team through the development process. You will ensure development is being done right the first time. You will also~

• Make design decisions and technology recommendations to satisfy business requirements based on the product roadmap
• Establish a coherent architecture vision of how FIS enterprise software and infrastructure technology will be applied to best address current and expected future application needs
• Continuously communicate the vision in an audience-appropriate manner, both internally and externally, from developers and designers to business owners and customers
• Analyse highly complex project requirements to determine impact and/or change to the system architecture
• Evaluate the need for architecture changes and conducts appropriate cost/benefit analyses
• Ensure lead developers and designers are familiar with application, software and infrastructure technology assets, standards, and requirements along with software development best practices
• Assist in the identification of patterns, techniques, tools,and processes that contribute to effective project execution and business-unit profitability
• Develop and recommend new processes, tools and technology that improves the system and/or its architecture
• Develop, document and execute through technical test plans and protocols to ensure architecture changes are working properly. Provides risk identification

What You Will Need

• Solid experience in a similar role having led the technology direction for multiple projects and led or presented architecture concepts outside of the realm of the immediate workgroup
• Strong track record of implementing AWS and Azure services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Aurora, MSK, ESK)
• Knowledge of the primary Azure services (VM, AKS, Flexible Server, Event Hubs)
• Proven experience with large scale migration projects data centre to cloud
• Experience with infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g. Shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
• Sound practical experience with Linux and Windows based systems administration in a Cloud or Virtualised environment
• Proven ability to think strategically and strong relationship management abilities
• Experience in full life cycle development with an emphasis on incremental, iterative development and deployment
• Excellent analytical, decision making, problem solving and communication skills
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Scirnce, Information Systems or equivalent work experience

Added Bonus If You Have

• Knowledge of RESTful Services, Web Services, SOAP, JMS, MQ would be an asset
• Knowledge of Akka (including persistence and clusters), Docker, CQRS, Event sourcing
• Knowledge/expertise in payments and financial services domain

What We Offer You
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including~

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech
• Flexible hybrid work environment
• Resources to invest in your community
• Competitive salary and benefits including medical insurance and employee share scheme

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Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.