Cloud Solutions Architect @ GM financial

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Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters

GM Financial is targeting significant growth as it transforms the Protection/Insurance Products into a full captive platform. Our team is responsible for bringing the branded General Motors F&I products to market and we work hands on with our dealer partners to improve performance in their F&I department. In order to provide the most competitive products and business insights, we are building advanced data and analytics capabilities.

What makes you a dream candidate?

Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers and emerging computing trends

Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs

Knowledge of enterprise platforms and operating systems as well as knowledge of key business functions and processes

Working knowledge of Agile development, Scrum and Application Lifecycle Management

Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, management, and mentoring to team members

Demonstrable experience leading software developers, systems or process analysts

Demonstrated excellent communication (verbal and writing), influencing and negotiation skills

Ability to interact with and provide architectural design guidance to project teams made up of employee and/or supplier resources

Ability to effectively communicate with other senior leaders of IT on program strategies and plans and negotiate quality solutions

Ability to break down complex topics into simple to digest information and data points, adjusted to audiences at various levels

Ability to create system and process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence and UML diagrams, inter and intra system dependencies within the functional domain and across them

Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions

Ability to broker solutions for issues between functional domains, senior leaders

Demonstrated strong analytic and problem-solving abilities

Experience and Education

5-7 years of systems design experience with at least three or more years of experience with cloud like technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Pref

Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: software design or development, application design, systems operations/management, database architecture, virtualization, IP networking, storage, IT security and Linux system administration Pref

Experience with the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Containers Pref

Experience in articulating the business drives and architectural approach/trade-offs during discussions for solution buy-in at various levels and gain consensus Pref

Experience in driving new infrastructure technologies from proof-of-concepts to full production implementation Pref

Experience in driving cloud migration and strategy initiatives Preferred

Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work or military experience Preferred

What We Offer: Benefits effective your first day, 401K, Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks and 100% paid), Pet insurance, training, certifications

Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Compensation: Competitive Salary

Benefits Package: Generous benefits package

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2 days onsite in Irving, TX

About the role:
The Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for developing a rigorous technology architecture, leveraging cloud services and automation to enable business strategies and ensure public and private cloud solutions are optimized for cost and functionality. This person will also be responsible for developing and driving the GMF Financial cloud computing strategy along with the introduction of new emerging technologies and public cloud services, cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring strategies. This person will work with development teams and other stakeholders to drive and enable the migration and refactoring of on-premises applications to cloud native design and deployment methodologies. This person will mentor and work with both senior and junior developers and architects to bring them up to speed on cloud architectures including modern programming languages, microservices and container-based deployments. An energetic, dynamic and innovative mindset, with drive, attention to detail and excellent communication skills will be needed for success in this position. This individual must be able to translate complex ideas, technology, and programs into language senior management can relate to and be a key influencer on technical decisions that affect the business on a long-term basis.

JOB DUTIES

Manage the enterprise-wide cloud strategy, develop the architecture governance framework and define architecture foundations
Serve as a trusted advisor to global technology leaders
Stay abreast of new industry trends and provide subject matter expertise in cloud technologies, providing consultation to leadership
Research, analyze, design, propose and support the delivery of solutions that are appropriate for business and technology strategies
Understand, advocate and support IT enterprise strategies and act as a visionary to proactively assist in the direction for future strategies
Recommend best-fit cloud solutions on the basis of need and risk appetite
Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to develop architecture requirements
Participate in the development and ongoing management of enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies
Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide infrastructure decision-making
Manage the budget for the teams that you are responsible for and the related infrastructure & services
Guide team to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service while striving to provide world-class service
Effectively communicate current status of all projects, problems, and issues to the IT senior management team
Regularly communicate project health and identifies risks to project and program stakeholders, sponsors, and management
Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to management
Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms
Define cloud standards, DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool chain and Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
Define, implement and enforce the cloud standard operating environment, cloud standards, and associated tools/platforms/frameworks for the GMF application portfolio, in coordination with IT-wide efforts and Technology Architecture and Planning
Drive Proof-of-Concepts and implementation, with hands-on involvement as SME, for new SOE items: build deployment automation pipelines, build automated next gen CI/CD pipelines partnering with development teams, build and integrate new technologies like containers enabling multi-cloud and preventing cloud provider lock-in
Contribute to, and influence IT-wide definition and enhancements of Azure and other public cloud platforms customization, standards and best practices for GM Financial
Build partnerships and network with other external vendors to understand tool offerings, how we can integrate and benefits to GM Financial
Define and execute the IT application portfolio strategy for public and private cloud migrations, data center consolidation and on-premises evolution, in alignment with overall IT strategy and directions
Plan and drive public cloud migration: Total cost of ownership including projections and budgets, application assessment, security concerns and resolution, network concerns and resolution, review checklists with application owners, operations teams, development and testing, DBA’s, appropriate migration paths, etc.
Define and enforce Cloud architecture best practices: availability; redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, DB and Interfacing Systems, etc.
Educate teams about Cloud standards, migrations and SOE
Be a SME and expert across the business for all Cloud technical hands-on questions, with an initial focus on Azure and Cloud Native, 12 Factor Software development

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