Director Cloud Architecture - United Kingdom / Canada

TheRole:Director, Cloud Architecture

The Location: United Kingdom / Canada

The Team:

We define and enable target state architecture. Accelerating our teams to build secure applications and platforms at scale. We help each other in times of need, and we are proud of our work. We are visionaries, thought leaders, multipliers, coders, hackers, and much more. Above all, we are a global team of diverse folks that enjoy working together to create smart solutions.   

In partnership with North America Cloud Architecture, Global leadership, and Regional leadership in Orion, your team shares a common mission to define, enable target state architecture, and build secure applications and platforms at scale.  

The Impact:

This is an Architecture Leadership role and part of the Ratings Technology Cloud Architecture organization.

Regional Head of Cloud Architecture leads strategic initiatives, builds future state architectures, defines standards, fosters knowledge sharing and collaboration in achieving our vision.

The team has broad expertise in Ratings organizations critical platforms, applications, data, and cloud domains. All team members provide leadership, innovation, timely delivery, and the ability to articulate business value. Be a part of a unique opportunity to define and enable Ratings technology vision. 

What’s in it for you:

We are looking for a Cloud Architecture Leader in Ratings Technology organization to lead execution of strategic initiatives that will achieve our technology vision.

This role will be responsible for defining strategy, designing architecture, leading development, driving principles and standards that will achieve future state architecture.

The ideal candidate should have deep expertise with application development, distributed systems, and a desire to drive change through technology alignment across the enterprise. The role requires the candidate to be hands on with modern cloud and microservices technologies.

You will partner with global staff of Product Management, Software engineers, QA, and SRE peers to work across a large, global group of agile scrum teams.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the Ratings Technology strategy and roadmap that rapidly transforms the application architecture and data landscape while meeting business priorities
• Develop technology leadership talent that are crucial to our world-class agile execution teams
• Establish key control points and sustain consistent output that adheres to our compliance, quality and engineering standards while sustaining high velocity
• Create best-in-class technology innovation that is mirrored by best-in-class security and demonstrably moves Ratings forward positively with global regulatory bodies and with the market
• Evangelize the vision of Ratings Technology strategic initiatives by defining measurable and actionable outcomes for engineering teams to derive in-line transformation of our legacy applications and data
• Be an early adopter of new technologies, technical skills, and capabilities, leading to continuous improvement to solutions that capitalize on emerging trends
• Accelerate rationalization of legacy to serverless and future state architectures to achieve speed to market for internal and external products
• Partner with engineering, QA, product management, data, and SRE organizations to ensure adoption of standards for information security and technology disciplines
• Reimagine agility in highly regulated environment by embedding right control points in SDLC to achieve strong compliance and sustainable velocity while reducing friction between governance, information security, architecture and technology teams
• Introduce and enable emerging technologies like Cloud, AI/ML, Blockchain, Data, and others to drive innovation across Ratings product lines
• Build an architecture organization that is customer focused, multi-cloud oriented, and provides thought leadership to enable rapid technology innovation and foster career growth across the organization
• Design and implement strategies to monitor the effectiveness of information security, standards programs, and strategic initiatives to identify, manage, and mitigate current and emerging risks
• Attract and develop top talent, creating a cohesive culture that fosters innovation, transparency and collaboration

What We’re Looking For:

• Ability to clearly articulate and build support for a strategic vision
• Be relentlessly curious, take ownership and challenge the status quo
• Has in-depth knowledge of the industry competitive landscape as well as deep understanding of how to implement solutions in a regulated setting
• Operates globally and is able to define where strategies and tactics need to be applied globally and where locally, and to communicate that clearly and simply
• Enables engineering, QA, product management, data and SRE teams to deliver business value while driving architecture strategy and achieving technology vision
• Attracts and develops top talent and integrates them into our key strategic initiatives
• Looks at external companies, products and capabilities and how they may accelerate Ratings technology initiatives

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Strong experience with Distributed Systems and Microservices
• 12+ years of working experience with Java/J2EE
• Working experience in designing and developing Distributed solutions
• Solid understanding and development experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or any cloud provider
• Working experience with DevOps tools such as GIT, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Strong knowledge of Functional programming, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting, and Content Management Systems
• Skilled in managing, coaching, inspiring, growing, and building highly effective teams
• Experience giving presentations and comfortable communicating in a senior leadership setting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with web services, messaging, identity and access, and monitoring
• Working Knowledge of Agile development process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Effective communicator who influences and negotiates with great latitude on various outcomes
• Experience in maintaining focus and driving results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strength in interfacing with multiple groups with the ability to coordinate effectively, multi-task, and manage pressure
• Experience in assessing change impacts, managing timelines, and commitments 

Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills