Position: Cloud Solutions Architect / Technical Lead
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
Summary:
This is a TechLead level role responsible for helping with technical direction. This individual must be able to define best practices for complex solutions and develop migration of existing on-premise applications to cloud native architectures. This individual must also have strong consultative and communication skills.
Candidate should have deep experience on projects with complex designs / architectures and interfaces especially with azure cloud Azure cloud native, services, docker/containers, scalability in every aspect of the system, performance optimization, scalability, problem solving etc.
Qualifications:
- 12-20 years working in software development on a variety of projects
- Strong experience in Cloud methodologies
- Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
Experience:
- Significant experience in design and development roles
- Strong background in Azure DevOps including: CI/CD pipeline architecture/creation, working with ADO/Terraform, best deployment practices, and microservices. Significant experience with transformations from traditional operational methodologies to Cloud environments
- Strong hands-on experience with modern application architecture skills and designing solutions in and migrations to cloud-native environment including containers, Azure services, microservices, Kubernetes etc.
- Experience with Agile development practices
- Strong hands-on C#/.Net/.Net core software development background in an enterprise environment
- Previous experience creating proof of concepts from scratch based on requirements/application infrastructure to propose, create, and implement solutions
- Strong troubleshooting/problem-solving ability and strong Application performance insights/skills
- Experience in working/leading onsite/offsite team, and some task planning activities.
- Experience and practical use of Agile/Scrum practices and tools. Use of ADO
- Strong API experience (defining API specifications, creating APIs, and integrating APIs into 3rd party applications)
- Strong background in SQL Server environment
- Good dev experience and understanding of front-end technology and development like Angular
- Misc skills required: Entity-Framework, Dapper, performance optimization, heavy Windows / Microsoft / Azure Cloud environment, Cloud networking concepts / troubleshooting, hands-on development and troubleshooting skills
- Background in Technical Design/Lead/Software Architect work