Cloud Solution Architect

Description:

Who are we?

It’s an exciting time to join our organisation! On 1 March 2023, two of Australia’s most successful member-owned banking organisations merged, to form Heritage and People’s Choice - Australia’s leading mutual banking organisation and a genuine, member-owned alternative to the major banks.

We are 100% member owned, with approximately 720,000 members and 1,900 employees. We have dual head offices in Adelaide and Toowoomba, and 95 branches across South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory, trading under two brands, Heritage Bank and People's Choice.

When you come to work at Heritage and People’s Choice, you’ll be joining a team of inclusive, friendly, and motivated employees who value making a difference every day for our members, community, and the planet. We are committed to creating an outstanding working environment where you feel supported, can continue to develop and are proud advocates of our members and our business.

About the role

We’re on the hunt for a tech savvy enthusiast to join our expanding Digital and Technology division where you will contribute to the delivery of leading-edge technology that helps drive great customer experience and supports our strategic vision to be a technology enabled institution.

As an experienced Cloud Solution Architect, you will work cross functionally with platform teams, vendors, service providers and business stakeholders to continually design, develop and improve digital/technology and cloud solutions. You will be instrumental in developing quality and secure solutions, while seamlessly collaborating with network and security teams to meet both business needs and technical requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing expertise in the planning, design and delivery of cloud solutions.
• Contributing to and helping drive technology plans to leverage value from cloud solutions and remove legacy technology infrastructure.
• Researching and participating in proof of concepts and innovation.
• Providing subject matter expertise, leadership and guidance to service providers & support teams.
• Oversee tenancy, subscription and environment management for Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Drive continuous improvement in cloud automation, deployment, and configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, ARM Templates, AWS Cloud Formation Templates and DSC).
• Working with project teams and service providers to ensure project objectives are met and delivered on time and within budget.
• Developing and maintaining technology standard documentation in relation to cloud solutions.
• Designing and developing solution architecture proposals and documentation and managing these through relevant governance and approval forums.

About you

We want to work with someone who strives for excellence and is passionate about delivering the best solutions for our members and the business. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Minimum 3+ years demonstrated experience in a similar role.
• Strong cloud networking skills (express route, direct link, hub & spoke, inter region connectivity, LB’s, App gateway and WAF solutions).
• Knowledge of highly available, highly scalable cloud-based infrastructures (Azure and AWS SaaS and PaaS solutions) and continuous delivery.
• DevOps/IaC and Configuration Management (including DSC, Azure Automation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc)
• Experience in end-to-end business process re-engineering or business transformation initiatives.