DSN is looking to hire an Enterprise Solution Architect for our client in Raleigh, NC.
The position responsible for:
- Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains: Business Architecture, Application/Software Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Security Architecture.
- Responsible for finding opportunities to improve architecture using cloud and cloud-native technologies.
- Hands-on abilities to build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
- Prior experience in digital transformation for large complex applications.
- Provides assessment of current state technology architecture and recommendation of future state technology architecture
- Identifies architectural risks and plans to mitigate risks, ensures adherence to standards and best practices, and influences and communicates effectively with non-technical audiences including senior ITD and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Software Development teams, Product Managers, and Business Owners to ensure smooth deployment and operation of systems.
- Guide/Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large and small-scale systems.
- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.
- Develop Cloud Operation Framework, and roles and responsibilities for each category in the framework.
- Automate tools to monitor system health and reliability to support business process requirements, Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
- Communicate status and risks to the product teams, Help automate and streamline operations and processes.
- Ensure solution designs and implementation meet architecture quality standards.
- Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
- Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends.
- Security Architecture / Security Controls Implementation
- Gap Analysis and Mitigation
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities / Competencies:
- Active status as an AWS Certified Architect (DevOps or Architect preferred)
- Implements technical processes to roll out solutions.
- Works with the project team to deliver fully functional products in a timely manner
- Knowledge of CI/CD (Jenkins, TravisCI, CircleCI, AppVeyor, etc) is required.
- Working experience with one of more automation tools and repository such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CHEF, TeamCity, Artifactory, SVN, Bitbucket
- Working experience with cloud native tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, ELB, Autoscaling, and EC2
- Good understanding of VPCs, Subnet configuration, route table, Internet gateway, VPC peering, Transit gateway, VPC Link, etc
- AWS - Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Solution Architect (preferred)
- Active certification status on any cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure Developer (preferred)
- Track record of successfully establishing and implementing transformation programs in an Agile and DevOps environment
Minimum Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Management, Engineering, or another related discipline
- 5+ years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
- 4+ Years of AWS Experience, CloudFormation experience
- 8+ years of related experience including experience working with Agile Methods and modern technology environments.
- 3+ years of Cloud architecture experience and cloud economics
- Experience leading cross functional project teams, workgroups.
- Highly desired - Knowledge of security technologies and methods for securing information
- Highly desired - Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies.
- Highly desired - Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence.
Required Skills
- Experience in establishing and implementing governance model for the Cloud Migration and transformation (Highly Desired )
- Experience in Migrating from On-prem to Cloud using cloud infrastructure on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions-(2 Years Required)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, SSM, EBS AND Cloud formation (5 years Required)
- Professional hands-on IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
(Required 5 Years)
- Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environment (Highly desired)
- Experience working with Agile Methods and modern technology environments. (Required 8 Years)
- Experience leading cross functional project teams, workgroups (Required 2 Years)
- Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies.
(Highly desired)
- Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence (Required 4 Years)