Azure Platform Engineering Lead, VP
State Street
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We are looking for a experienced Technical Engineering lead to be part of our Azure Cloud Center of Excellence to drive a team on engineers in building out of a secure and compliant Azure foundation based on principles of hyper automation, self service, immutability, developer autonomy etc. The core cloud foundation will enable State Street Alpha to drive agility, access latest innovations on Azure and allow us to drive best in class customer experience.
What you will be responsible for
As an Azure engineering lead you will
- Lead the planning and execution of the Azure platform engineering team
- Lead and manage a multi disciplinary globally distributed engineering team to drive best in class execution in a cost effective model
- Establish secure and sound engineering practices for the team to deliver superior quality
- Take a business value driven approach to prioritize and drive service enablement inline with business use cases
- Be accountable for the performance and quality of work for the resources assigned.
- be responsible for designing and building distributed, fault tolerant solutions that enable the business to securely run sensitive workloads within the cloud environment
- work with the team to design and implement large scale enterprise integration patterns between our cloud environments and our on-premises services
- support short-term and long-term public cloud service enablement planning
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
- Good understanding of Microsoft Azure IAAS, PAAS and SAAS solutions along with with cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)
- Implementation experience in driving and establishing a Azure Landing Zone or an equivalent public cloud platform allowing a regulated firm to run core business workloads
- Strong cloud environment experience with any major CSP
- Ability to drive automation and demonstrated continuous improvement, quality methodology and project/operations delivery skills
- Product and project management experience in a fast paced, constantly changing and evolving environment
- Demonstrated delivery experience in large scale cloud transformation efforts
- Strong leadership skills and demonstrated creative problem-solving skills
- Preferable expertise in a wide range of infrastructure related domains with a track record of large production grade service deployment and IT operations preferably in financial services or a highly regulated industry
- Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary
- Leadership skills be able to inspire, persuade and influence courageously and persuade
- Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate and navigate a complex organization as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
- Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate team.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience
- 15+ years overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud implementation and delivery role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
- At least 3+ years experience of large Azure environment will be a huge plus.
- 8-10 years of delivery and implementation management experience in a global delivery model
- Demonstrated experience using Agile and solid experience with DevOps and automation
- Experience with Azure Governance and Best Practices (Azure Policy, Role Based Access Control, Networking Architectures, CSA’s CCM, Cost Management controls, etc.)
- Strong understanding of multi-region environments and global connectivity requirements
- Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
- Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
- Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises
- Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies
- Understanding of Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure DevOps preferred
- Financial services or regulated industry experience a huge plus
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 AnnualThe range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
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