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Job role: Senior Cloud Architect

Contract: W2 role

Location: Hybrid - Atlanta GA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Develop and implement cloud migration, modernization, and multi-cloud acumen to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that solve customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
2. Serve as a technical expert in AWS, supporting customers with complex commercial and technical challenges.
3. Lead cross-functional, cross-organization initiatives that drive thought leadership on multi-cloud and AWS migration scenarios.
4. Broad technology experience across AWS cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, cloud migrations, or IT transformations.
5. Strong problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze problems, develop actionable tactical plans quickly, up-level the insights to strategy.
6. Demonstrated ability as a 'trusted advisor' to customers. Able to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives, as well as easily interact and give guidance to software developers, IT operations staff, and system architects.
7. Assist GTA and State agencies with architectural decisions and design to optimize applications for cost and performance.
8. Review and evaluate existing systems architectures and software products to identify cloud platforming and refactoring opportunities.
9. Review and provide input to the development of standards.
10. Build relationships and communicate office goals.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. 10+ years of overall experience, including a minimum of 5 years of enterprise, full-life cycle in Architecture in the professional IT/Software Development services industry.
2. 5-8 years of hands-on technical application architecture experience and application build/modernization experience.
3. 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects).
4. Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications to operate in a Cloud environment.
5. Broad knowledge of various IT domains, including applications, data, infrastructure, and security.
6. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and best practices.
7. Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards.
8. Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
9. Knowledge to identify the best cloud architecture options to help the organization reach its GTA strategic goals.
10. Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability.
11. Familiarity with emerging technologies and trends such as cloud computing, microservices architecture, and DevOps.
12. Strong attention to detail, problem investigation, and diagnostic skills.
13. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
14. Good organizational skills and forward planning ability.
15. Self-motivated and a team player.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in information technology or equivalent work experience.
2. At least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts, philosophies, and tools behind the design of applications, solution architecture, and underlying information technologies on AWS/Public Cloud.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with GCP & OCI is a plus.
2. Experience with state and local Government is a plus.
3. One or more of the following RDBMS technologies: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres.
4. Experience with Java, Python, HTTP/S, FTP, Publish/subscribe mechanism, SOAP messaging, and REST Services.
5. Experience with cutting-edge AI technologies in developing chatbots is a plus.
6. Knowledge of integration standards and best practices.

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Seniority Level:

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type:

Contract

Job Function:

Other

Industries:

IT Services and IT Consulting