Senior Cloud Architect

Company Overview:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and robust cloud architectures primarily for built environment with timeseries data
• Lead the migration of existing legacy cloud infrastructures to modern cloud-based platforms, ensuring seamless integration and minimal downtime.
• Support for hosting and configuration of critical services like Kafka, Timeseries DB
• Enhancement of the scalable data and event pipeline across the stack
• Architectural design for convergence of different offers into a single unified offer for Small and Mid-Size Buildings
• Develop and deploy microservices architectures, actively participating in coding and development when necessary.
• Manage the full lifecycle of deployment from architecture design through integration and maintenance.
• Support for performance testing of critical infrastructure components (both existing and planned revamp)
• Guide and mentor teams in developing modern cloud solutions, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in cloud computing to keep Schneider Electric at the forefront of technological innovation.

Requirements:

Experience:

• 10 – 15 years of overall experience in software engineering
• 5+ years in architect role for a cloud-based software product / platform with a proven track record of deploying cloud solutions in a large-scale environment supporting billions of data points per day.

Technical Expertise

Must Have:

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure is essential; AWS knowledge is a significant plus.
• Strong experience in taking cost-conscious architectural decisions of using native services vs self-hosted services
• Experience with Kafka including performance tuning of a hosted Kafka instance
• Experience with event driven architecture.
• Experience with performance evaluation of different architectural options.
• Hands-on experience with microservices, containerization and Kubernetes (AKS, Openshift).
• Hands-on experience with different databases (Redis, Mongodb, Postgresql)
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java and C#

Good to have:

• Experience with timeseries database e.g. InfluxDB or timescale will be an added plus
• Experience with configurable dashboard platforms will be a plus.
• Experience with Kafka Streams.
• Experience in building Data Pipelines
• Experience in Architecting Data Analytics system that convert raw data into actionable insights.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines with Github CI/Argo CD/Jenkins etc.

Tools & Project Management:

• Hands on experience of Atlassian Jira & Confluence Cloud, GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps.
• Experienced professional working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Scaled Agile (SAFe) mode.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and strong communication skills.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain and present technical concepts to a diverse set of audiences.
• Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and thrive in a cross-functional environment.
• Willingness to work outside documented job description. Has a “whatever is needed” attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Prior experience in the energy sector or industrial automation is advantageous.