Job Abstract

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

About the Role

The Cloud Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization’s future-state business capabilities and drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, AI, edge computing and database technologies.

As a Cloud Architect you will create and formulate strategy for the adoption of Cloud services, work with internal business teams to deeply understand their business and technical needs, act as a technical liaison between partners and the support engineering teams as well as develop complete and track Cloud Security and Governance measures. 

• Define principles, frameworks and technology mentorship working with peers such as enterprise, information, applications and security architects. Analyzes enterprise business context to derive the future-state technology architecture.

• Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommend solutions for improvement. 

• Drive digital innovation by using innovative technologies and transforms existing IT landscape to drive long term value and outcomes

• Define high-level plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.

• Guide technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes while ensuring nonfunctional requirements are met.

• Assists with governance, assurance and standards ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.

• Coordinate and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.

• Coordinate Technical architecture review across platforms and projects and ensure alignment to architecture principles and standards. 

• Run POC pilots and deliver working, production-ready IT services that can be easily used by agile teams.

• Work closely with the product managers, product owners and EA architects to enable infrastructure agility, scalability and resilience to support required business and lifecycle needs

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of design and implementation experience in IT, with a deep knowledge in the following technical disciplines: Cloud technologies, infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, Active Directory, Collaboration and workspace technologies and related protocols

• 10+ years of experience in Linux based Operating Systems like CentOS, Ubuntu and automation of AMI rollouts.

• 8+ years of engineering and architecture experience with AWS

• 6+ years of experience with logging, monitoring, analyzing data using Cloud native tools

• 4+ years of experience with automation using tools like terraform, Github.

• 4+ years of Design/improve CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and development of applications.

• 4+ years experience with assessing Security posture of Cloud implementations

Other Qualifications:

• Large scale on-Premises to Cloud migration, involving thousands of virtual machines and physical servers

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments

• Knowledge of ITSM, ITIL and IT standards and controls and architectural paradigms such as TOGAF

• Understanding of financial models and budgeting and ability to estimate financial impact of technology alternatives

• Understanding of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)

• Displays curiosity, remains technology neutral and drives long term outcomes balancing big picture and immediate priorities 

• Containerizing applications and using Kubernetes for building micro-services based application architectures.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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