Cloud Architect

NOTE:

Candidate with development experience will be considered.

Candidate with Infrastructure background won't be considered.

Preferred candidate would be a certified AWS architect with strong development 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:

• Bachelors 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
• AWS Certification such as a Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Fundamentals, data scientist, developer, etc.