Job Description :
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Reston,VA
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 12+ Months
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest-growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving our global clients' most complex business and IT challenges.
Job Description:
Your future duties and responsibilities
" Apply advanced skills, knowledge, and/or experience to lead modeling, analysis, and planning projects.
" Translate functional requirements into technical solutions to meet customer needs by applying advanced skills, knowledge, and experience.
" Maintain existing structures and collaborate with management to define governance processes.
" Perform modeling, analysis, and planning to solve technical business problems and inform the team's technical direction.
" Defining current and target state architectures, transition architectures , and roadmaps
" Experience in defining deployment and resiliency architectures using serverless architecture like ECS, Fargate, Lambda, etc...
" Experience working with Application servers and containers such as JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server
" Experience w/performance optimizations such as improving scalability, availability, throughput, failover, etc.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
" 8-10 years of relevant experience
" Excellent knowledge of application, data, and resiliency architecture methodologies
" Excellent knowledge of integration patterns related to application and data
" Excellent hands-on skills and knowledge of API and Microservices architecture
" Good knowledge of data pipeline architecture
" Proven ability to demonstrate architect solutions based on business processes using AWS services to redesign an existing system and design new systems.
" Proven ability to evaluate new services/cots products to meet business needs.
" Sound knowledge of data security & audit compliance
" Must possess strong communication skills to present and influence target state architecture reviews with peers and leaders.
" Must have strong collaboration skills to work with multiple teams and drive technology architecture decisions.
" Hands-on development skills and experience with Java or Python.
" Data Analytics solutioning experience in AWS cloud using AWS native services (EMR, Redshift, Athena, etc.), Apache Spark framework, and using Python or R
" Demonstrated experience in various Cloud Technologies, industry trends, and solutions experience in Public, Hybrid Cloud, and PaaS will be essential.
" Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and other Confluence tools
" Must have experience in defining deployment and resiliency architectures using serverless architecture like ECS, Fargate, Lambda, etc...
" Average knowledge of big data ecosystem and good knowledge of services like AWS EMR, and Sagemaker.
" AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional certification.
Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.