Cloud Solutions Architect (CSA)

What does a Cloud Solutions Architect Do?

Three main responsibilites are:

Lead cultural change for cloud adoption

Changing culture to adopt cloud is hard but can be achieved by influencing behavior, which over time becomes a new culture. Who needs to be influenced?

• business
• cio
• developers
• finance
• operations
• security iam

Develop and coordinate cloud architecture

Develop and coordinate cloud architecture by building relationships with the functional architects in critical areas, including but not limited to:

• Application development, portfolio and life cycle management
• Data management, analytics and protection
• Governance
• Identity and access management
• Infrastructure
• Integration
• Network
• Security, privacy and compliance

Develop a cloud strategy and coordinate the adaptation process

• Skills, application assessment
• Cloud provider
• Best practices and risk mitigation
• Billing and cost control
• Automation
• Operation at scale