Cloud Architect

Brown & Brown Inc. is looking for a Cloud Architect to join our growing organization. The Cloud Architect will assist in the design, execution, and/or maintenance of our compute infrastructure, including computational workflows, cloud-based web-application deployments, network architecture, data versioning and life cycle management.

Essential Duties and Functions:

• Responsible for collecting and defining technical requirements to enable business process and integrations
• Collaborate with the team of engineers and IT specialists to design effective, efficient, scalable, and secure applications within the organization’s Cloud platform
• Outline the cloud strategy and architecture that will be needed to support the Brown & Brown’s business strategy
• Responsible for analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long term cloud strategic and operating plans to ensure that the cloud objectives are consistent with the enterprise’s long-term business objectives
• Responsible for recommendation on cloud architecture strategies, processes and methodologies
• Lead or assist in the design and implementation of new cloud-based systems as the company’s needs change
• Responsible for the development of architecture blueprints for related systems
• Recommends and participates in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture (EA).
• Responsible for collaboration with Information Security to ensure proper security policies and standards are followed
• Troubleshoot any problems that are encountered in any of the above
• Follow industry trends and best practices, recommend changes as appropriate
• Jointly develop technical enablement plans for business divisions
• Lead the execution of technical enablement engagements including; Technical Briefings, Proof of Concepts, and Architectural Design Sessions
• Stay current on technology trends and opportunities, compliance/risk issues by self study and other training programs company is able to provide

Knowledge and Skills

• A proven track record of designing, developing and maintaining secure, complex, cloud-based, data-intensive systems.
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud)
• Above all, the ability and willingness to learn new skills and solve new challenges