AWS Cloud Architect

Position: AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Reston VA (Initial Remote)

Duration: Long Term

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will advise team members on the design and processes for implementation of components of technological structures. In this role, you will create solutions with a process-driven view, as well as devise processes for maintaining and/or updating existing structures.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - role 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:

• As an Architect, you will be responsible for leading architectural decisions for Enterprise Business Architecture.
• A successful candidate must have a deep understanding of technical architecture and have implemented solutions in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of industry best practices around enterprise strategy, architectures, and patterns.
• Drive Software Tools rationalization across the Enterprise by collaborating with partner organizations and enable cost savings and risk mitigation
• Evolve Enterprise Business Capability model, Process Taxonomy and drive Business Architecture standards across the business portfolios
• Partner with Business and Technical Process owners to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and help optimize the processes enabling faster Time to Market and lowering Total Cost of Ownership
• Develops an enterprise understanding of the core and supporting processes of the business, including the people, resources and systems involved.
• Support Enterprise Business Architecture Functions partnering with peers, business and technical stakeholders and development teams
• Establish Reference Architectures, Composite Patterns and run Proof of Concepts on emerging technologies that can accelerate agile software delivery process
• Maintains knowledge on business and technology trends that impact the business environment.
• Acts as a link between business and technical experts when designing technology solutions
• Experience with micro-services architectures and cloud migration for data.
• The Advisor will also need to have experience implementing Technical/Deployment Architectures in the AWS Services as well as experience with Engineering Tools and capabilities in order to solve for inter-service communication, data hydration, application security, platform resiliency etc. Strong interpersonal communications skill is required.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
Minimum Required Experiences

• 6 years

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• 12+ years of progressive experience in solution architecture, systems architecture and engineering, analysis and applications programming required
• Expertise in implementing complex full stack solutions including API, Micro-Services, Streaming etc. in large Enterprise Data organizations
• Good understanding of Machine Learning Statistical & Predictive Modeling, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Text Mining and AI/ NLP concepts
• Experience in defining and implementing data strategies that encompass data integration, movement and transformation logic at an enterprise-level
• Good understanding of Data Modeling concepts/industry standards including the canonical data exchange standards
• Hands on experience leveraging object-oriented design patterns and domain driven design principles
• Proficient with REST standards and best practices and hands-on experience in developing RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with Planning, Design, Road maps, POC implementations for AWS Cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with leveraging Amazon ECS, EKS and Fargate services
• Good understanding of Amazon Managed Services such as Redshift, PostgreSQL RDS/Aurora
• Working knowledge of EMR, Redshift, S3 Athena, Apache Spark framework and using Python, or R.
• Expertise in designing solution architecture with a view towards resiliency, availability and very comfortable in designing Failover and Recovery strategies
• In-depth knowledge of Data Warehouse & Operational Data Store Architecture & Methodologies
• Good understanding of AWS security frameworks experience in architecting complex/enterprise-scale capabilities that manifest a strong data security controls that conform to NIST (or equivalent) framework
• Familiarity with maintaining ACL, Security Groups and firewall configurations.
• Should have developed 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 Certifications will be preferred

Skills

• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions.
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.
• 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.
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process.
• Experience using software and computer systems' architectural principles to integrate enterprise computer applications such as xMatters, AWS Application Integration, or WebSphere.
• Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Experience identifying and selecting strategic options, and identifying resources to meet the defined objectives.
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.