Labor market, digital professions and training of new generations. In this period of history in continuous evolution, the universe and TLC world are questioning the ways in which professional employment on the one hand, and new technologies on the other, can make synthesis efficiently and effectively.

According to data of the World Economic Forum, 2020 seven million jobs worldwide will be lost, replaced by robots and artificial intelligence, against which he, however, will create two million new and different. A sea change that will cover every field and every worker, especially among younger people. Businesses in fact, in the coming years, will consider as priority digital competences considered up to secondary today, in assessing the potential of new professional profiles to be taken.

Intelligent cybersecurity specialist from the business analyst, the data scientists to date specialist: there are many, digital figures on the rise. In particular, in the IT world, an increasingly valued and sought after role is that of architect cloud. In recent years companies have gone from wondering what is cloud computing, to ask, rather, what and how they can be beneficial in the transition to cloud-based projects. The architect cloud arises in this context: it is a very specialized professional, who has the specific purpose to understand how cloud computing can come into a company, how it can change the status quo of existing IT resources and which can offer added value to the business.

Figure from the wide range of skills, cloud architect is, essentially, an architect involved in the management of distribution systems working in specific areas: can deal with public cloud or private cloud, it can operate within a given dellorchestrator center or as a specialist in the API programming procedures. It assumes a professional role so well that deviates from an architect known classic figure in its most traditional sense, because to be a good cloud architect is first of all necessary to have very specific IT skills.

In the first place, it is discharged date for a strong knowledge of the principles of enterprise computing, both from theoretical and practical point of view. In addition, it is essential to possess a deep and updated knowledge of the sets offered by leading cloud providers on the market today. Finally are considered an added value, both the understanding of the on-premises virtualisation solutions, is a particularly familiar with the methodology of DevOps development for software.

The professional profile of the architect cloud is evolving, as well as the height of its growth is the context in which it operates. Its role is to design and build scalable and resilient cloud environments, that adapt as much as possible to the business needs of an enterprise. And more and more companies today need to migrate their data in a public cloud: a demand which is currently met through external consultants, who see individual professionals involved in targeted projects and short-term.

The scenery, however, is changing. And the next step would be for companies to hire full-time professionals such as cloud architect or the engineer cloud, involving them in its staff more structural projects. The professional fate of the figure of the architect cloud, however, does not depend solely on the companies: a lot is also linked to the formation of the individual profiles.

A good cloud architect must not only have a thorough knowledge of cloud computing systems and the most important IT solutions, but also have a good understanding of the back-end and its low-level resources: from the storage networks, until hypervisor, with the aim of being able to provide companies with the secure solutions that can mitigate the risks associated with cloud infrastructure.

The role of the architect cloud is therefore crucial from the point of view of infrastructure safety as well as cost reduction, but not only. It is in fact a professional particularly dynamic, ever-changing, always careful to match the evolution of the technological systems. It is in effect a facilitator of the complex digital transformation process, that businesses are experiencing.

An example that best represents the latter feature is of course the shift in focus, from companies, from back-end resources (such as the hypervisor and the network infrastructure) to Type API-driven platforms. A transformation that sees the figure of the architect central cloud, because it can handle directly and with greater competence transactions end-to-end platform.