Sr. Cloud Architect

This is a full-time opportunity to support our federal customer in Washington D.C.

Fully Remote – Eastern Standard Time, US citizen is required. Green card holders accepted.

We are looking for a motivated Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the Research and Analytics Platform (RAP) Portal.

The RAP is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides seamless data management and analytics experience that allows Board researchers the ability to search data catalogs, access data, and collaborate with others.

Qualifications

10 years’ experience designing and building performant, cost-optimized systems in AWS.
10 years' experience designing data platforms, data lakes, data meshes, data fabrics, data warehouses, or large data management systems.
8 years' experience using Agile software development methodologies.
8 years’ experience designing and implementing data pipelines/ETL/ELT technologies.
8 years’ experience with designing databases, including creating entity relationship diagrams for logical and physical database models and associated data dictionaries.
Knowledge of data technologies such as SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Airflow etc.
Experience presenting technical solutions to Architecture/Software review board.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
Knowledge of NIST & FISMA security review and ATO process.
Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
Hand-on experience building cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Hands-on experience implementing data pipelines in AWS.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Automated software delivery in a CI/CD environment using Jenkins, Gitlab CI, or similar.
Professional Cloud Architect Certification.

Capabilities

Understanding of and ability to evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.
Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in highly secure operating environments.
Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud ready architecture.
Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, and OSI Network.
Familiarity with government cloud deployment regulations/compliance policies such as FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.
Utilizes emerging technologies and leading cloud teams to implement cloud design principles and develop cloud automation, interfaces, and architecture support organization initiatives.

You shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to RAP and associated technologies.
Drives opportunities for reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration.
Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others.
Design data architecture, data engineering, and analytics design patterns to enhance the capabilities of IRAP platform; create conceptual, logical, and physical design and associated design documents and diagrams for IRAP.
Perform evaluation of software tooling options by defining comprehensive evaluation criteria and rating tooling options against the defined evaluation criteria.
Conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) for technical solutions, and software tools.
Represent RAP in Architecture Review Board and Software Review Board to get approval for designs and software tools including Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) tools.
Assist in definition of security controls implementation guidance for RAP in accordance with FISMA and NIST 800-53.
Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with partner architects and technical specialists, technical decision makers, and business stakeholders.
Receive and synthesize data about customer business and technical requirements, addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates and proves those solutions' capability and value through vibrant technology design.
Guides other team members on Cloud technology, data architecture, data engineering, and DevSecOps.
Enhance capabilities of RAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.

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