Cloud Architect

Job Description

>As a Cloud and Data Architect, you will be responsible for leading
>architectural decisions for the Cloud, and Data Enterprise Portfolios.
>You
>must have a deep understanding of technical architecture and have
>implemented solutions in a cloud environment focused on AWS or Azure.
>Knowledge of industry best practices around enterprise cloud security,
>architectures, and patterns. Experience with microservices
>architectures
>and cloud migration for data is a plus.  The architect will need to
>have
>experience implementing security for Technical/Deployment Architectures
>in
>the AWS Services as well as experience with Engineering Tools and
>capabilities to solve inter-service communication, data hydration,
>application security, platform resiliency etc.  Technical experience
>with
>multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.  Strong
>interpersonal
>communications skills are required.


>THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE will offer you the flexibility to make each
>day
>your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can
>deliver
>on the following responsibilities:
>
> - Position yourself as a trusted advisor to business teams and partner
>   with them to understand their requirements for cloud implementations
>  - Provide recommendations to clients with respect to cloud migrations
>   and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for AWS adoption
>   - Create application architecture, data architecture, deployment
>  architectures, functional design specifications and assist with other
>   project deliverables as needed.
>   - Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on AWS that address
>   customers’ requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and
>   performance
>   - Collaborate with other project teams and other laterals such as
> Information Security, Compliance, Controls etc on technical solutions.


>Qualifications
>
>   - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Desired Experiences
>   - 10 years of progressive hands-on experience in application
>development with 6 years of solution architecture, systems architecture
>and
>   engineering, analysis and applications programming, technical team
>   leadership role is required
>   - Expertise in implementing complex full stack applications and
>practices for stack solutions including API, Micro-Services, Streaming
>etc.
>   in large Enterprise Data organizations
>- Expertise in managing Enterprise Data platforms with knowledge of SQL
>   and NoSQL platforms is a plus
>   - A minimum of 5 years’ experience in working with AWS or Azure as a
>   solution architecture is required
>- Familiarity with Planning, Design, Road maps, POC implementations for
>   AWS Cloud technologies
>- Familiarity with AWS database services such as PostgreSQL RDS, Aurora
>   is a must
>   - Expertise in designing solution architecture with a view towards
>resiliency, availability and very comfortable in designing Failover and
>   Recovery strategies
> - Familiarity with designing logging framework for cloud watch for all
>   deployed apps
>   - Good Knowledge of AWS security services is required
>  - Should be able to demonstrate sharing strategies for future scaling
>   and performance
>- Should have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
>   Master’s degree is preferred
>   - AWS Professional Certification is preferred.  AWS Architecture
>   Associate Certification or equivalent Azure Architecture Associate
>   certification is a must
>   - CISSP certification a Plus Skills
> - Strong ability in communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting,
>   planning and distributing communication, etc.
>   - Skilled in creating visual concepts, creating content, and editing
> content by hand or with the help with computer software to communicate
>   ideas.
>   - Skilled in supporting, controlling, monitoring, and management of
>large, complex, and sometimes geographically dispersed IT
>infrastructure
>   and applications in order to optimize IT service delivery.
>   - Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure
>   successful project completion.
>   - Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing
>   controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps,
>   remediating risk, etc.
> - Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully
>   and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
>   - Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating
>   meetings, and resolving conflict.
>- Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a
>way
>   that is engaging and easy to understand.
>- Experience with Architecture principles and TOGAF framework is a plus
>- Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders,
>   customers, and vendors, building relationship
>   - Experience identifying and selecting strategic options, and
>   identifying resources to meet the defined objectives Tools
>   - Skilled in draw.io
>   - Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and
>   networking platforms.
>   - Experience using JIRA
>   - Skilled in using Enterprise Architect
>   - Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
>   - Skilled in Docker
>  - Skilled in using PowerShell to automate tasks that manage Microsoft
>   operating systems and processes
>   - Skilled in Azure
>   - Experience using APIs for developing or programming software
>   - Skilled in Java
>   - Skilled in Jenkins
>   - Skilled in XML
>   - Skilled in Cloud Migration (Re-platform)