Azure Cloud Architect - REMOTE

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Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Azure Cloud Architect supporting the United States Postal Service (USPS). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Azure Cloud Architect, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Azure Cloud Architect joining our team to manage specific technology that forms the foundation of the enterprise-wide Cloud Architecture with USPS.

HOW AN AZURE CLOUD ARCHITECT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Advises and assists with analytics functional groups to define and implement solutions aligned with a Cloud based Microservices / Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for infrastructure or business applications.
• Creates architecture deliverables describing cloud solutions in sufficient detail to develop bill of materials, technology components, vendor components, cost estimations, and design parameters suitable for handoff to implementation teams.
• Prepares solution descriptions, assumptions, technical approach, and content that explains why solution is recommended, risks and mitigation plans.
• Leads cultural change for cloud adoption.
• Creates and communicates cloud policies, procedures, standards, design patterns, and reference architectures that define repeatable solutions.
• Identifies training and development needs required to support cloud-based solutions standards.
• Interfaces with vendors to ensure standard architectures are adhere to and implemented for projects within a specific technology area.
• Provides technical direction to management and systems professionals engaged in the analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of business information systems.
• Ensures alignment of infrastructure and application solution design to the overall architecture for Enterprise applications and compliance with defined technology standards, policies, processes, and best industry practices.
• Researches and analyzes the technology industry and market trends relating to cloud technologies to determine potential impact upon the IT enterprise; makes recommendations to capitalize on trends and industry best practice.
• Ensures the architecture governance structure is applied in a defined solutions area based on business and IT organization strategies.
• Ensures publication and update of solution standards pertaining to cloud hosted solutions and manages individual projects related to the release and propagation of standards across IT.
• Provides leadership and technical assistance …