Senior IT Solutions Architect (Cloud Architect)

Position: Senior IT Solutions Architect (Cloud Architect)

Location: Hybrid (1 day a week at Malden, MA 02148)

Duration: : through 6/30/2024 (with extension into FY25)

Hours/week: 40 hours/week

Interview format: Remote

Position Overview

The client seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to join a team charged with developing and executing a plan to rationalize and modernize the client's application portfolio. The Senior Solutions Architect will help transform the client's service delivery model toward enabling its key stakeholders (families, early education and care providers, and educators) to access information, perform business functions, and receive support through curated experiences in a single digital space

The envisioned future state are portals for each stakeholder group and a dedicated abstraction layer between the portals and the agency's custom applications, built by the IDDS team, that will enable EECs to build and refine user experiences quickly based on defined business objectives. The Senior Solutions Architect will play a critical role in rationalizing client's underlying applications through strategic build/buy/evolve decisions that conform to our strategy for supporting and maintaining applications across the technology stack which includes, in addition to multiple different departments within the main org. A key aspect of application modernization is developing and implementing data taxonomies and standards that greatly improve data quality and portability in the Secretariat.

Reporting to the Secretariat Chief Information Officer (SCIO), the Senior Solutions Architect will serve on the Architecture Review Board (ARB), participate in Secretariat-wide strategic planning with senior leaders, escalate all technical decisions to the ARB, and lend expertise in providing an independent, vendor-agnostic perspective on all architectural decisions.

The individual will work an 8-hour day and follow a hybrid work schedule with a minimum of one day per week in the office.

This position will be funded at least through June 30, 2024, with the opportunity for an additional 12 months through June 30, 2025.

Responsibilities

Analyze cloud technology footprint and provide "right-sizing” recommendations based on cost and performance

Architect cloud-hosted and cloud-native solutions to modernize an aging application portfolio

Identify SaaS solutions to meet business needs

Utilize low code/no code frameworks to rationalize and modernize candidate applications from the portfolio where SaaS is not feasible

Recommend optimization of expenditures on hardware and software based on utilization

Conduct hands-on research and provide recommendations for modernization and cost optimization of the technology stack

Perform and assist in developing and implementing a Secretariat wide data strategy

Develop future state architectural diagram

Required Experience

Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems and/or equivalent work experience

Working experience with project teams that follow an implementation of SAFe, Scrum, or a similar Agile framework

Experience working with Web Applications, Relational Databases, Middleware/ESB and Integration technology

Knowledge of Enterprise Application Integration patterns and synchronous/asynchronous and event driven processing

5 years working knowledge of core AWS Services such as EC2, RDS, ELB/NLB/ALB Load Balancers, API Gateway, S3

Experience with Cloud DevOps processes and tooling (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub)

Knowledge of traditional ETL/ELT techniques as well as cloud-based data pipelines (e.g., AWS DMS, AWS Glue, Kafka, MS SSIS)

Understanding of securing resources in cloud environment, specifically in AWS (e.g., VPC, network routing rules, security groups, S3 bucket policy)

Knowledge of Microsoft Windows and application stack such as MS IIS, MS SQL Server, and MS Report Server

Ability to review existing applications to understand architecture and dependencies on other systems

Familiarity with cloud-native serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, S3.

Experience working with and migrating a variety of backend data sources (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB)

Understanding of common file formats such as JSON, XML, CSV

Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) methodologies, Jira, and GitHub

5 years' experience using scripting tools to automate tasks (Windows PowerShell, Bash, Python, Perl)

Experience working with source code management tools to retrieve and review code (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket)

Desired Experience

Knowledge of and experience with government security regulations, standards, and processes including FISMA, FIPS, NIST, and FedRAMP is a plus

Familiarity with management of Salesforce applications is a plus