Senior Azure Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

Your Impact as Senior Azure Cloud Solution Architect

As a Senior Azure Cloud Solution Architect, you play a key role in translating Achmea's change calendar into innovative and manufacturable solutions within the dynamic Azure foundation. These solutions are focused on an advanced hybrid Cloud environment, and you will work closely with a diverse team of professionals, including product managers, Cloud engineers, domain architects and others within the Achmea IT organization.

Your Responsibilities.

- Leadership in Content: You are the driving force behind content discussions and act as the primary point of contact for all parties involved.

- Dialogue with the Client: You are in constant dialogue with the client about their issues and solutions, closely overseeing the possibilities and consequences of technology choices.

- Solution Design: You are responsible for establishing, maintaining and publishing the solution design within the framework of the enterprise and domain architecture.

- Translating Complexity: You translate complex issues into clear and understandable solutions for all stakeholders, enabling the Product Owner to efficiently plan the work and successfully drive realization.

- Advice and Guidance: You provide valuable advice, facilitate management decision making and guide the Azure team, ensuring the content quality of the solutions.

Your Profile

What is required?

- You are a communicative and analytical professional capable of translating architecture principles to different stakeholders at all levels within the organization. With a keen eye for interests, you make well-considered choices.

- You develop and implement architecture policy and advise on complex issues based on specialist expertise, experience and knowledge.

- You have the talent to simplify complex issues and can articulate concepts and advice clearly and convincingly.

- You continuously follow the latest technological developments in the field of Azure and are able to transfer this knowledge effectively.

- You maintain the overall picture and take responsibility for a scalable setup of the Azure Cloud foundation, together with a team of developers and specialists.

- You have experience in setting up a solid Azure Cloud foundation for an Enterprise organization based on best practices and the latest technologies.

- You are able to create an Azure Cloud architecture design based on customer requirements, including the associated security baselines.

- You provide guidance at the architecture level in the design and implementation of the elaborated solution.

- You have knowledge and experience with Azure Cloud and Azure VMware Solutions setups. You support Solution Architects in other domains with your knowledge and expertise in the area of setup choices and digital transitions.

Your Competencies and Background

- You have a relevant HBO+/WO education.

- You have obtained a Microsoft Azure Architect certification.

- You have experience in a similar senior role or at least 5+ years of relevant work experience as a solution architect.

- You are analytically strong, results-oriented and stress resistant.

- You are autonomous, decisive and binding in your approach.

- Preferably you have experience with Agile, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), DYA and TOGAF.