QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. We are a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing. Our collaborative culture and focus on innovation enable us to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for our investors.
The Cloud Adoption Team provides cloud architecture support across QRT's application and core technology teams. The team focuses on enabling the delivery of well architected solutions, through close collaboration across the business, creation of tools and deployable blueprints, and solving challenges faced by teams. The team is critical to ensuring that cloud hosted solutions are built on strong foundations which scale to meet the demands of the growing business.
Your future role at QRT:
We are hiring an experienced cloud architect, who has a deep knowledge in infrastructure and data services, along with broad knowledge across the expansive suite of AWS services.
The role will require close collaboration across QRT business and technology groups to provide cloud architecture advisory, design and implementation support on new and existing platforms.
The ideal candidate will have experience of working at all levels of an organisation, be able to distil business requirements into robust, supportable designs and aid technology teams in their implementation.
You will enable the QRT Business Teams to scale through:
- Accelerating the time it takes to design and implement new business applications and features whilst assuring sound architectural fundamentals are in place:
- Creation of re-usable and implementable architecture patterns and best practices, which advance the initial design and development phase of a project.
- Identifying and solving common challenges which impact application and technology teams
- Guiding adoption and delivery within QRT business groups to translate business requirements into technical designs and support development teams in creating supportable solutions within the cloud
- Providing time-critical support to teams within QRT to create cloud architecture and deployment plans and help standardize cloud offerings delivery
- Interfacing with cloud providers to identify new services that can be beneficial and providing feedback to them on service changes and improvements that would benefit QRT
Your Present Skill Set:
- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure and data solutions and their implementation in AWS, with demonstrable experience in designing and implementing well architected cloud solutions which support cloud hosted business applications.
- Knowledge of AWS core Infrastructure services (networking, security operations)
- Experience with RDS, Aurora, S3, SQL/ no-SQL products, Timeseries products, data engineering products.
- Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into well-rounded, secure, scalable solutions which meet the needs of the customer.
- A demonstrable background in working at scale across a large cloud technology landscape, identifying, advising and defining best practice solutions relating to the management, engineering and presentation of data.
- Good knowledge of one of more coding languages, such as Python
- Experience in using an Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform
QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
