Azure Platform Architect Manager

A career within the Cloud Engineering Practice, will provide you with the opportunity to assist leading organizations develop and implement strategies that transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical business challenges. We take a "cloud first" approach when building assets and delivering technology with an agile operating model. Our mindset is to always look for opportunities to automate technology and business processes. We assist our customers to embrace next generation sourcing strategies to drive success and get "fit the cloud". Joining this newly formed team will allow you the opportunity to shape, scale and provide leadership to a group of highly skilled cloud architects and engineers. You will be able to combine your consulting, technical and industry expertise to build and deliver emerging cloud solutions. With a focus on Cloud and DevOps you will collaborate with internal teams and customers to implement hybrid cloud architectures, leverage cloud services, ensuring a solid foundation to run, manage and scale their critical business applications.

As a Cloud Architect Manager , you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Customer Success
• Collaborate with cross functional team members to develop and propose to potential customers technical cloud based solutions including proposals and statements of work
• Assist to develop reference architectures and best practice approaches to optimize clients' cloud adoption, application performance, security, and cost models
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate to designs and approach
• Participate in meetings and discussions with internal and external customers
• Identify and prioritize use cases for implementation
• Identify technical requirements for the identified use cases and build an implementation plan
• Deliver presentations and technical demonstrations to customers and to the community at industry events

Coaching, Recruiting, and Mentorship
• Collaborate with team members and foster an environment where technical professionals can develop their skills and grow their careers; taking on increased responsibility and adding value to the organization
• Identify new candidates to join the Cloud Engineering team
• Help with ongoing recruiting and technical interview process
• Provide coaching and mentoring to fellow team members

Implementation, Innovation (building), and Learning
• Take an "always learning" approach to your role, continuing to advance your skills, knowledge and network in Cloud and DevOps
• Cloud moves fast and requires a lot of "labbing and learning ", be an out of the box thinker; look for opportunities to learn new software and technology
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge on PwC's Azure offerings
• Obtain and maintain relevant certifications as needed for the Cloud Engineering Practice
• Collaborate with your team members and contribute as a technical team member while participating in multiple concurrent cloud focused projects, ensuring implementations are well aligned with the overall architecture
• Identification and build of reusable and repeatable cloud-based patterns and artifacts that the practice can bring to market
• Be an active member in the technology community, provide thought leadership and mentorship, share your knowledge and expertise

Experiences and skills you'll use to solve
• Extensive experience in cloud architecture and business applications, project execution, practice management and an understand of software development
• Experience in implementation and scale of cloud based projects with a specific focus on the following:
• Cloud technology architectures and solution options aligned to technology strategy and cloud infrastructure use cases, including hybrid cloud and deployment options (PaaS, IaaS, etc )
• Change management practices including organizational models, roles / responsibilities and technology tooling and automation
• Application modernization strategies and tooling
• Working knowledge of supporting the removal of technical debt and legacy applications
• Experience working in waterfall, scrum, agile, and other methodologies
• Good oral and written communication skills with prior working experience in a consulting environment, including developing business presentations and technical writing with an ability to express complex technical concepts in terms that are understandable to the business
• When applying to a Quebec based opportunity, fluency in French is required. Outside of Quebec, fluency in French is an asset

Technical experience in many of the following areas:
• Relevant Azure certification
• Azure Virtual Machines
• Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Azure Container registry
• CodeBuild, Azure Devops , Cloud Build
• Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage (Blob, File, Disk)
• Azure Geo-Redundancy, Disaster Recovery architecture and design.
• Azure Subscription Management, Azure Policies . Azure Landing Zones
• Azure Front Door, Azure Gateway, Azure API-M
• Cloud Networking (VPC, Subnets, etc )
• Infrastructure as code - Terraform , Ansible, ARM templates , Bicep etc.
• Configuration management - Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack , etc .
• CI/CD - Jenkins, Tekton , ArgoCD , Flux , Azure DevOps
• Azure CLI
• Git and various git platforms (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket , etc )
• Agile software development and release cycle management
• Software testing and test suites
• Application monitoring and alerting
• Technical presentations and public speaking engagements

Why you'll love PwC
We're inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you'll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

The most connected firm through activity based working
PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment - one that is collaborative, supportive and productive. We work in-person and virtually, as is best suited for our clients, teams and people . We want you to be intentional with your work, how you do it and where it's done. PwC offices are hubs of connectivity and learning. We strongly encourage our people to prioritise in-person work, whether it's in the office or at a client site. This means we expect you to be in-person (either with clients or in the office) at least half of your time. We know that hybrid work is all about balance, and capturing the benefits of in-person work is essential to your growth at the firm. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer.

At PwC Canada, our most valuable asset is our people and we grow stronger as we learn from one another. We're committed to creating an equitable and inclusive community of solvers where everyone feels that they truly belong. We understand that experience comes in many forms and building trust in society and solving important problems is only possible if we reflect the mosaic of the society we live in.
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