Cloud Architect

The Cloud Architect role has overall responsibility for the architecture and design of solutions that encompass multiple enterprise and strategic applications and technologies across multiple departments. The Cloud Architect is responsible for evaluating the requirements of a business or IT ask and both architecting an IT solution or perform vendor evaluations to determine if an external product can support the business ask or need. The Cloud Architect can also be responsible for developing a level of effort (LOE) to support any project request that they might get.  Solutions may cover a broad spectrum of the business (i.e. laboratory, billing, logistics, patient services, finance, legal, etc.) and applications/ technologies regardless of the architect’s primary area of expertise.  The architect is responsible for the creation and presentation of a number of artifacts including, but not limited to architecture overview documents, solution sketches, data models, integration patterns, LOE estimates, vendor evaluation scorecards, design/code review reports etc. They are further responsible for leading other application architects, application developers & non-technical team members and provide design oversight and guidance at varying levels during project execution.  Finally, the Cloud Architect is charged with collaborating with the other architecture functions (such as Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure architecture) in the developing of various IT strategies and ensuring that the solutions that they lead are in support of strategic goals for the company – both business and IT.The Cloud Architect has a background as a Solutions Architect and proactively and holistically leads and supports Enterprise Architects activities that guide developing and managing a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), and shared infrastructure and application services. They understand business goals, objectives and outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. They provide the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.