Cloud Infrastructure Architect Ge
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Role Summary:Responsible for Consulting, designing, implementing, and diagnosing issues with cloud computing environments. Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge within a domain: technical, solutions, business or information.

Essential Responsibilities:In this role you will:

Lead and coordinate technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across multiple teams or complex product lines.

Analyze, design and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.

Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will be securely integrated with current applications.

Monitors technological advancements to ensure that solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards as well as emerging business requirements.

Analyzes systems and performs usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements.

Evaluates the impact of changes or additions between systems, applications, and services within the environment.

Assist businesses across GEHC with planning and execution of cloud-based deployments.

Work with our engineering teams to implement critical infrastructure components

Provide leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout the domain.

Qualifications/Requirements:Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

10+ years designing, implementing, and/or maintaining IT infrastructures

5+ years in a customer facing role

5+ years of cloud computing experience

Eligibility Requirements: (Country Specific)

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job

Must be willing to travel

Must be willing to work out of an office located in Seattle

Desired Characteristics:Technical Expertise:

Experience with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms

Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements at domain level, aligning architectural requirements with software development strategy.

Leads teams in developing plans and assessing improvement options.

Business Acumen:

Create, analyze and manage projects that provide direct business benefit; demonstrate detailed knowledge of business operations and strategic direction, including merger & acquisition opportunities; understand industry trends and competitive landscape and the implications for your GE business; partner with business leaders to align projects with business goals and needs.

Leadership:

Recommends allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success. Develops the business case for approval.

Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain. Define the skills, competencies in the skills and talents for architecture team members.

Facilitates dialogues that produce new perspectives and trigger recommendations for substantial innovative / enhancements, and analysis of consequences.

Influences through others. Uses experts or other third parties to influence. Builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas, uses chains of indirect influence.

Personal Attributes:

Participates with senior business leaders and subject matter authorities in defining strategies and courses of action that will impact the enterprise.

Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities.

Takes a holistic systems perspective. Envisions, compares and contrasts multiple potential long-range enterprise-wide futures. Empathizes with multiple points of view.

About Us:GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE's mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).Additional Locations:United States;Washington;Seattle;