Cloud Strategy & Architecture Lead-Cloud Transformation

Position: Cloud Strategy & Architecture Lead-Cloud Transformation

Location: Paris

As a part of our CTC Practice you will be responsible for taking a client’s desired ambition and creating a truly executable solution across people, partners, and planning, and then holding the intimate relationship of leading/guiding that client through the transformation, alongside the best partnerships and engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• You will challenge or confirm the thinking of the client, creating an ambition that is robust and viable. You will build a truly intimate relationship with the client through realization partnership vs. theoretical advice.
• You are responsible for providing the Solution for the client, ensuring that it is aligned with the business, and covering not only core technical services but putting yourself in the position of the client and covering all of the dependencies.
• Activating your strategic mindset, anavigating “partner-congested” major accounts, and ensuring not just success today, but avoidance of issues tomorrow.
• Leading teams and momotivatedhem to work together, spotting blockers and laying out creative solutions.
• Creating and capturing best practices, driving thought leadership within Wipro as well as the client teams.
• Collaborating with other areas of Wipro to create assets/products which make ambition possible and differentiate in the market.
• Balancing practice growth and cloud solution development whilst remaining the face of Wipro with your client.
• As a Strategy & Architecture Lead you will advise,, design, and drive execution to achieve the best-fit, even,t-based, and zero trust architecture for the client, through:
  • Working with the client’s business stakeholders to understand the business requirements
  • Workinthe g with the client’s Enterprise and Lead Architects to design the target cloud platforms and services, design the roadmap, define the reference architectures, design principles, standards, guidelines, and tooling
  • Work with Security, Data and Network SMEs to ensure integrated architectural solutions
  • Overseeing the execution of the architectural solutions, making sure the designs are successfully deployed
  • Assisting businesses as they migrate applications to and develop applications on the cloud.
  • Articulating trade-offs and driving high-impact technology decisions on topics including (but not limited to) API gateways, commercial vs open source software, container orchestration, etc.
  • Participating in Sales and various pursuits focused client'slients' business needs

Attributes we are seeking

• Passionate about client delivery excellence and comfortable having a relationship with clients at all levels.
• Thrives in ambiguity and relishes creating paths and solutions “looking forward” vs. reacting.
• Highly empathetic to our clients and our people, leading to strong communication skills and engaging passion.
• Unafraid of challenging to create a better solution.
• Extensive experience in cloud consulting with an end-to-end point of view, and experience in delivering large-scale cloud transformation.
• High Say-Do ratio
• Need to have a technical understanding of the main clouds – AWS, Azure, and Google.
• Must have implemented or worked as a lead digital/ technology architect role in a Cloud transformation program
• Strong knowledge of Microservices, event-based architecture; and good working knowledge of zero-trust architecture
• Experience in Application & Integration Architecture including legacy architecture
• Must have implemented or worked as a lead digital/ technology architect role in a Cloud transformation program
• Strong knowledge of Microservices, event-based architecture; and good working knowledge of zero-trust architecture
• Experience in Application & Integration Architecture including legacy architecture
• Industry-specific background a strong recommendation for context and client engagement.