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Alight Senior Cloud Architect - Azure in London, United Kingdom
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Our story
At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”
Our Values:
Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com.
Job Description
As a Cloud Architect, you’ll be responsible for establishing and contributing to our strategic public cloud direction for Alight as well as providing support to product owners to deploy solutions into our public clouds. You will need to apply technical expertise across multiple disciplines to understand clients’ technical drivers and consult on the best approach to achieve them while aligning to our public cloud strategies in key areas of operations, financial management, security, and automation. The ideal candidate works in a strategic manor and possesses the know-how to solve major technical challenges; provides thought leadership for technical innovation; and can drive efficiency within Alight.
The requirements
You will need to have knowledge and experience in many of the following areas:
Ability to think strategically and relate architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs.
Deep understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers, with a strong focus on Azure.
In-depth experience with some or all these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, Identity and Access Management.
Working knowledge of automation and deployment tool e.g., Terraform and Ansible
Proven track record delivering within large-scale IT programs, taking ownership of the architecture and design activities and outputs.
Experience gaining alignment across business and IT, operating across organizational and technology teams to drive common approaches, delivering sustainable, agile, and re-usable solutions.
Comfortable presenting complex, technical topics in an actionable manner to senior leadership.
Worked in one or more of the following sectors: Human Resources; Utilities, Banking, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, Public Sector, Health, Transport.
Project responsibilities
Define a cloud strategy to improve quality and speed of product deployments while aligning to our Alight polices and financial budgets.
Build and maintain reference architectures that align with our cloud strategy with a focus on operations, financial management, security, and automation.
Lead cloud/solution architecture stream of product deployments
Lead requirements gathering activities to fully understand both functional and non-functional requirements for any given project.
Drive a fit for purpose architecture and design aligned with wider architectural principles, policies, and design.
Manage design milestones and ensure effective design governance around key design decisions.
Build strong internal relationships within Advisory and across other services
People & Team responsibilities
Continuously grow public cloud service knowledge
Develop people through effectively coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff.
Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training Architecture professionals.
Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills.
Understand, follow, and role model workplace policies and procedures
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
7 years’ experience as a software development, operations, data, or security engineer/architect
Experience with project/goal management and tracking
Ability to coordinate and work with diverse groups of subject matter experts.
Self-starter, with a personal standard 'high bar' of performance excellence
Preferred Qualifications
Accreditation and practitioner experience of TOGAF; IAF; IT4IT or similar frameworks
Strong knowledge of Azure Cloud technologies
Passion for creating innovative solutions for consumers.
Experience delivering enterprise products and services in a high growth environment.
Experience working with diverse groups of people to manage and influence change.
Experience coordinating complex product development cycles including hardware and software development schedules.
Understanding of Product Management best practices and proven track record in working with cross-functional, no dedicated teams
Broad technical breadth and depth including familiarity with web services, enterprise management tools and back-end application infrastructure.
Strong technical acumen and understanding of emerging disruptive technologies, like cloud computing, open-source software, or software as a service.
Superior oral and written communication skills
Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive
10+ years in the technology industry in a technical, product management
3+ years’ experience hands-on with 1 or more public cloud provider
Strong presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences, with the ability to dive-deep on technical and architectural details with customers.
Experience writing code, committing to open-source projects, understanding of the community mechanisms of open-source projects.
Flexible Working
So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row.
Benefits
We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.
Diversity Policy Statement
Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.
Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.
Your candidacy is currently being considered for a requisition for an Alight Inc group company. As you may be aware, Alight has announced intent to divest its Payroll & Professional Services business to HIG Capital. After the transaction closes, this position will be aligned to the new Payroll & Professional Services owned by HIG Capital (‘Divested Group’). By applying for this position which will be with the Divested Group company, you understand and agree to the information you submitted for your application with Alight being shared with the Divested Group company. In addition, if you are made an offer of employment, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with the Divested Group company employment policies.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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About Alight Solutions
Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com .
Our values are the essence of who we are:
Champion people. We are empathetic and have created a place where everyone belongs. And we win together.
Grow with purpose. We are inspired by our higher calling. We fail forward and choose progress over perfection. We are brave, show grit and grow our whole selves.
Be Alight. We are a beacon that empowers others. We act with integrity and are real. And we find ways to add joy.
Our Colleague Experience
At Alight Solutions, we are reimaging how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life.
We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience.
Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place.
Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive!
Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive.
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