AWS Solutions Architect
Owings Mills, MD - USA
Job Summary
Direct-hire opportunity - no visa sponsorship available (applicants are required to have no current or future need for one)
Location:Two days hybrid Owings Mills primarily downtown HQ second DC/NYC for a third option
MUST be able to lead a migration initiative as 70% of this position includes that and leading a small team including completing performance reviews.
Role Summary
As the Principal of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering within the Global Technology Engineering & Operations organization you will lead the team responsible for designing developing and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and automation to meet the organizations evolving needs.
Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering is a globally distributed team. Working with your team leaders you will be both a hands-on technical leader and responsible and accountable for people leadership processes performance management and personal development of your direct reports and the wider team.
- You will apply your hands-on engineering expertise with enterprise cloud infrastructure to oversee the architecture development and governance of constantly evolving Cloud platforms.
- You will ensure that all Cloud infrastructure is sustainable reliable resilient expandable and optimized for costs manageability and operability.
- Lead the team in defining and maintaining automation platforms and deployment patterns.
- Your leadership will promote best practices and continuous improvement shape the organizations technology landscape and drive operational excellence.
- Be regarded as the authority in your field within the T. Rowe Price.
- Solve complex problems that have a broad impact on the business or organization function.
- Contribute to the Global Technology strategy and provide expert advice on the use of and direction of Cloud technology.
- You will be accountable for the Cloud Architecture & Governance processes.
Key responsibilities include addressing complex technical issues overseeing installations and assessing emerging technologies like multi-cloud strategies development and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for Cloud systems.
Technical Leadership:
- Take ownership of the firms most ambitious and complex technical initiatives ensuring successful execution from conception to completion.
- Lead cross-functional efforts to enable teams to adopt standard methodologies to integrate new Cloud technology effectively.
- Serve as a representative of the Cloud community in both internal and cross-organizational forums acting as a subject matter expert.
- Continuously monitor industry trends and proactively identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies that benefit the firm.
- Act as a hands-on technologist taking point on resolving complex technical challenges and troubleshooting critical issues and incidents as they arise.
- Align your teams book of work to realize the Global Technology (GT) strategy ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging technical and business acumen to identify root causes address business problems and implement data-driven solutions.
- As a leader use your knowledge of IAM and security systems to ensure integrations best practices are applied in the SDLC.
- Build and maintain a broad network of peers in technology and business functions and ensure that the Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering team is represented and visible across the firm.
- Represent Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in key firm-wide committees and forums such as the Architecture Council and Cloud Expert Group.
- Use your influence and leadership across the organization at all levels to amplify impact and drive delivery across the global organization.
- Apply your expert knowledge of diverse infrastructure & components to inform decisions on system upgrades refresh cycles and strategic replacements.
- Demonstrate structured decision-making even when faced with limited information or resources.
- Mentor and coach team members providing guidance and professional development opportunities.
- Offer feedback and support to others with management responsibilities fostering a collaborative leadership environment.
- Oversee the recruitment development and performance management of associates within the team.
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of products/flows across the asset management industry.
- Provide insight and perspective to help shape organizational strategies.
Required:
- 10 years of operating in a technical leadership capacity and proven track record of leading and managing geographically distributed teams.
- Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure components and their integration across on-premises environments and cloud service providers.
- Hands-on current experience with Cloud security reliability and integration best practices and industry trends in AWS Azure and GCP.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies and know when/if/how to apply them.
- Fluency with current IAC technologies including Terraform and CloudFormation and experience with relevant technologies like Ansible Python Java and Groovy are an advantage.
- Extensive experience managing Cloud Infrastructures on AWS and Azure with exposure to GCP and other Cloud platform providers.
- Experience integrating SaaS and Vendor solutions with a cross-cloud environment.
- Consider the operational aspects of a system long-term supportability maintenance etc.
- Apply technical skills and business knowledge to set standards for Global Technology.
- Solid understanding of requirements of the modern developer community.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code automated configuration for large scale infrastructure deployments infrastructure/software design for High Availability and Resilience at scale.
- In-depth knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting solutions for complex systems spanning on-premises and cloud.
- Cloud certifications
- Prior asset management experience
Required Experience:
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