Cloud Architect

NOTE:

We are NOT looking for candidates with Infrastructure background.

Candidates with application development experience is required with integration and deployment experience.

BASIC PURPOSE:

Principal Consultant/Architect, who will be responsible for the plan, design, as well as deployment automation of platform solutions on AWS. Instrumental in profiling and improving front-end and back-end application performance, mentor team members and take end-to-end technical ownership of applications. Must be able to stay on top of technological changes in the market and continuously look for opportunities to leverage new technology.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

·         Design, build and implement performant and robust cloud platform solutions.

·         Design and build data pipelines for supporting analytical solutions.

·         Provide level of effort estimates to support planning activities.

·         Provide microservices architecture and design specifications.

·         Fix defects found during implementation process or reported by the software test team.

·         Support software process definition and improvement initiatives and release process working with DevOps team in CI/CD pipelines developed with Terraform and CDK as Infrastructure-as-Code.

·         Execute security architectures for cloud systems.

·         Understand and recognize the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job; has awareness of system defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification, and validation, and testing activities.

·         Mentor less experienced team members.

·         Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, Architect and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.

QUALIFICATIONS:

·         Bachelor’s degree in computer science / related engineering field OR equivalent experience

in related field.

·         10+ years of experience in cloud application development.

·         Expert proficiency in JavaScript / Typescript and/or Java with Spring Boot or Quarkus.

·         Experience in architecting and developing event driven cloud-based solutions.

·         Experience in AWS services including API Gateway, AppSync, Amplify, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, SQS, Event Bridge, Cognito, Dynamo, Aurora PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, AWS Pinpoint.

·         Extensive experience in developing applications in POSIX compliant environments.

·         Strong knowledge of containerization, with expert knowledge of either Docker or Kubernetes.

·         Proficient in IAM security and AWS Networking.

·         Expert understand building and working with CI/CD pipelines.

·         Experience in designing, developing and creating data pipelines, data warehouse applications and analytical solutions including machine learning.

·         Deep cloud domain expertise in: architecture, big data, microservice architecture, cloud technologies, data security and privacy, tools, and testing

·         Excellent programming skills in data pipeline technologies like Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EventBridge and MSK

·         Extensive experience with Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, virtualization and working with relational databases and non-relational databases.

·         Excellent knowledge of building big data solutions using NoSQL databases.

·         Experience with secure coding best practices and methodologies, vulnerability scans, threat modeling, and cyber-risk assessments.

·         Familiar with modern build pipelines and tools

·         Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical designs

·         Familiarity with Git code versioning tools

·         Good written, verbal communication skills

·         Great team player

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience with RDBMS and is a plus
• Experience in Java, .NET, Python is a plus
• Experience in big data solutions and analytics; using BI tools like Power BI or AWS QuickSight is a plus
• Experience with other cloud computing platforms
• Azure or AWS Certification such as a Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Fundamentals, data scientist, developer, etc.