Solution Architect

AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Essential Job Functions

• Coordinates routine aspects of solution development and architecture and management processes. Interfaces with business developers, account managers, competency managers, and executive management on routine aspects of solution development to increase company productivity and profits.
• Oversees use of strategic solutions and offerings by the business development community. Participates in solution selling activities to ensure that marketing plans align with sales and launch plans.
• Assists management in researching existing business environment including trends, best practices and company preferred architectural frameworks and alliances to ensure that company services match business trends.
• Facilitates reduced risks to client and company; participates in solution business plan creation; assists in preparing financial models to ensure that client interests are met and potential business opportunities are established. Assists and supports client activities to eliminate gaps or inconsistencies in the initial solution, architectural design, deliverables, benefits and messaging.
• Interfaces and participates in business development discussions across cross-functional teams and internal and external executive managements to ensure consistency in solution development and implementation.
• Identifies business requirements; evaluates concepts such as market timing, compelling event and problem identification to ensure that delivered solutions meet both short and long term company and client business performance expectations.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, information technology or related field preferred
• Nine or more years of business solutions experience
• Experience working with company products and services, business processes and re-engineering
• Experience working with business environment, business industry and competitor products and services
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, product-line hardware and software
• Experience working with office productivity tools; delivery assurance and/or industry standards on deliverables
• Experience working with administrative and/or workflow systems

Other Qualifications

• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel and management
• Good skills at managing risks during product launches
• Good creative thinking, problem solving, planning, time-management and organization skills to balance and prioritize work
• Good human relations skills to select, develop, mentor, discipline and reward employees
• Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
• Ability to lead and work in a team environment
• Willingness to travel

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cloud Analytics team at Gainwell Technologies and support building the products. The analytics group is responsible for the design and deployment of analytics platforms and solutions to support Gainwell product development. We are looking for a cross-functional senior AWS Cloud Solution Architect with analytics background.

Responsibilities:

• Make informed decisions on the strategic direction and roadmap for the use and implementation of cloud platforms and DevOps methodologies.
• Create a well-informed, in-depth cloud strategy and manage its adaptation process.
• Respond to technical difficulties in a timely and competent manner.
• Translating project-specific requirements into a cloud structure that meets those requirements, as well as considering the project's resource use and scalability requirements.
• Designing the cloud environment from a comprehensive perspective, ensuring that it satisfies all the organizational needs.
• Performing activities such as deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management inside the cloud framework that has been created.
• Bringing new apps into the cloud environment to completion.
• Provide training and assistance to all employees whose jobs need them to interact with the cloud structure.
• Keeping track of how much cloud space is being used and ensuring that the system is running smoothly.
• Using virtualization technologies to accomplish effective server administration for the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar related field such as information technology or computer engineering
• Minimum 5 years of experience in supporting, executing, and designing IT cloud solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of current cloud computing technologies and trends
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with AWS Cloud technology preferred.
• 4 years of relevant experience as a cloud architect with following key skills:
  • Terraform or similar IaC language
  • AWS resources including Networking/ECS/EC2/Network/IAM, CLI, & best practices
  • Container orchestration (Docker, K8)
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD Development
  • Git
  • Markdown
  • DOT Language / Mermaid Diagrams
  • Python
  • Infrastructure Diagraming / Flow Diagrams
• AWS Solution Architect Certification

Other Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Work Type : Remote