Job Title: Cloud Architect
Division: Beazley Shared Services - IT
Role Summary:
The Cloud Architect oversees cloud architecture and plays a strategic role in designing and maintaining all cloud systems including the front-end platforms, servers, storage, and management networks.
Beazley is on an exciting journey leading the digitalisation of the specialist insurance market and has embarked on a multi-year modernisation programme that will deliver our strategy and enable data driven decisions leveraging Cloud technologies.
As we are starting on our Cloud journey, we are building out our operating model (people, processes and tools) required to deliver and support a multi cloud environment, pioneering in Azure first.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with the Enterprise Architecture Team and other organization functions to support the development of standard architecture patterns leveraging internal and external good practices
Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams to develop and promote cloud-native application architectures and application development and operations practices
Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on cloud and present and review designs to the Technical Design Authority
Design and develop detailed Cloud infrastructure architecture models working closely with cloud engineers and security architects
Work with relevant delivery teams to ensure that all design issues and dependencies are resolved
Design and develop detailed Cloud infrastructure architecture models working closely with cloud engineers and security architects
Identify relevant IT architectures and ensure programme and business stakeholders, suppliers, fully understand architecture context, standards and benefits
Define and document cloud processes and standards and influence the adoption of these processes and standards
Being a DevSecOps advocate, encouraging iterative design, with full automation for maximum scalability and speed of change
Personal Specification:
Qualifications (desirable but not essential)
Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Professional Cloud Architect (GCP)
Relevant Agile qualifications (SCRUM, KANBAN, SAFE, LESS etc)
Knowledge and Experience
Practical knowledge of the different cloud offerings from the various cloud service providers (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS)
Experience and thorough understanding of Cloud architecture (Azure in particular and/or AWS , GCP)
Excellent understanding of cyber security and experience of designing solutions that are sufficiently protected against threats
Cloud integration platforms and tools
Technical knowledge and extensive experience with complex, IT environments including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security
Understanding of Cloud Managed Services
Understanding of Cloud development frameworks, cloud native architectures and application delivery models
Good knowledge on various OS (Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Ubuntu, etc.)
Good understanding of enterprise networks, security and identity access management (IAM)
Commercial awareness and an ability to see the business benefits of new technologies
Commercial experience of architecture in an agile framework
Working with internal and external teams located across multiple time zones.
Competencies & Capabilities
Business Acumen: curious as to how business and data interact
Adaptable yet Challenging: flexible to changing goal posts but not a yes person
Stakeholder Partnership & Collaboration: builds long lasting and fruitful relationships
Data Driven: back up opinion with data where possible
Servant Leader: facilitate the growth of people and organisation
Responsible: responsibility that comes without power
Humble: put the team first at all times
Influential: convincing others, both on the team and outside it
Passion: for continuous improvement and taking ownership
Communication: motivating, emphasising and influencing
An enabler: focused on driving change, removing impediments and putting the team first
Rewards
- The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organization
- Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
- Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents
- Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance
- Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%
- 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus public holidays, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, subject to approval. Additional annual leave purchase is also available up to a maximum of five additional days per year.
- Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
- Up to £550 reimbursement towards home office setup
- Free in-office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance
- Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket
- The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
- Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
- Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
- Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
- Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business
Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles. |