Job Description :
Job Title: AWS Cloud Architect
Location: Durham, NC, 27707
Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension)
This is a AWS experience Cloud Operations resource.
Should be proficient in AWS, good communications skills, able to work with the Cloud Architect on design recommendations and foundational work to continue to mature our Cloud presence.
A Certified Cloud Solution Architect that has extensive experience with migrating applications to AWS cloud, implement security, modernize IT environments, and conduct pilots for smooth transition.
Serve as the senior solution architect on a given full Software Development Life Cycle project and vendor work; developing, maintaining and reviewing application architecture throughout the project. May include leading proof-of-technology activities.
Participate in the design review process and support the overall Enterprise Architecture Management process. Also, influence and drive change to architecture processes, strategies and standards, as needed.
Support and mentor junior Solution Architects.
Accountable for key design reviews and recommendations to management and IT governance, including:
o Selection and review of structural elements and their interfaces, by which a system is composed
o Behavior as specified in collaborations about those elements
o Composition of these structural and behavioral elements into larger subsystems
o Architectural system that guides this organization
o Architectural documentation creation and stewardship
Support pre-project efforts in terms of working with the user team or vendor during meetings/presentations, crafting conceptual solutions, assisting with time estimates, and documenting designs.
Develop Solution Architecture Models and Documentation (key written project deliverable) and/or oversee and approve the creation of architecture documentation.
Collaborate with the broader architecture community to provide input into IT strategies and standards.
Research and facilitate the development and review of solution, integration, workflow and web service standards.
Facilitate conversations with business and applicable vendors to drive out capability needs and outcomes.
Provide architectural leadership that supports insightful decision making, drive efficiencies in the development process, and maximizes the quality of technical deliverables.
Create or review IT plans that manage clear and realistic expectations of what technology can offer in terms of products, services, and delivery mechanisms.
Establish, maintain and review enterprise architecture models to enable applications development and decision-supporting activities, consistent with IT plans.
Hiring Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of progressive experience in a combination of IT development, design and/or architecture disciplines with at least 2 years of solution architecture experience.
If no degree, 12 years of progressive experience in a combination of IT development, design and/or architecture disciplines.
Minimum of 3 years of application development experience delivering quality scalable software on time, on budget, and in compliance with customer requirements.
Must have exposure to multiple, diverse technical integrations, technologies, and processing environments
Experience in solution design principles, practices, system development methodologies, and software life cycles with experience in a combination of system and application architectures is required.
Experience coordinating vendor solution delivery and partnering effectively with vendors to meet business needs.