Lead Enterprise Architect

What success looks like in this role:

• Collaborates with business, technology and product stakeholders to drive holistic architectural design
• Monitors industry and the competition for solution-focused technical and process changes and advances.
• Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives.
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology and interoperability requirements and produces high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Works with cross-functional technical, development and delivery teams to ensure application of smooth, efficient and scalable release processes.
• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.
• Translates business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases and data warehouses.
• Helps define data architectural framework, standards and principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data, etc.
• Helps define reference architecture and patterns others follow to create and improve data systems.
• Collaborates with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to structure effective data flows – from generation through transition to application.
• Provides Systems Architecture advice and support across a larger product portfolio or business line.
• Collaborates with business, engineering and product stakeholders to drive holistic technology implementations while maintaining constant focus on delivering client value.
• Works with portfolio stakeholders and customers to align the architectural direction of the solution intent.
• Drives structuring of the product vision, roadmap, priorities, enabler capabilities, non-functional requirements and solution demo activities.
• Consults with architecture, development, infrastructure and operational teams to address issues relating to performance, security, scalability, observability and availability.

Responsibilities: 

Design cloud solutions based on the well-architected framework. 

Provide thought leadership on usage and implementation of cost-effective cloud solutions.  

Work closely with client stakeholders (chief architects, technology SMEs, etc.,) to gather requirements for cloud migrations, cloud-native greenfield solutions etc. 

Review solution architectures with internal cloud architects, and external stakeholders 

Develop proof-of-concepts, wherever necessary, and validate the solutions with client stakeholders. 

Conduct assessments on existing environments and provide recommendations for choosing and implementing the right cloud strategy. 

Work with client stakeholders to create migration, modernization, and digital transformation roadmaps. 

Setup Cloud Centers of Excellence by working with customer’s IT SMEs. 

Implement cloud solutions that are highly secure, resilient, fault-tolerant, and compliant. 

Manage and maintain AWS cloud environments and resources. 

Provide Hands-on support, wherever necessary, to develop cloud native solutions, DevSecOps, IaC, and SRE automation 

Develop unit tests wherever applicable 

Gather requirements from the clients and dissect them into user stories and tasks. 

Provide technical guidance and assistance to other team members 

Conduct code reviews and technical design sessions 

Work collaboratively with other team members in designing and problem solving 

Participate in all agile ceremonies 

You will be successful in this role if you have:

U.S. citizenship is required to obtain and/or maintain a U.S. security clearance.

10+ years of Hands-on experience developing and managing cloud-native solutions, preferably in AWS or Azure. 

Hands-on experiences with core cloud services (storage, networking, firewalls, DNS, databases, applications, data analytics, compute, container services) across any cloud provider, preferably AWS or Azure. 

10+ years of Hands-on experience in programming and scripting technologies like Java, Python, Groovy, Shell, Go 

7+ years of Hands-on experience in designing and developing IaC automation using terraform, cloud formation templates, or ARM templates 

7+ years Hands-on experience designing and developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Pipelines or other CI tools 

Hands-on experience in developing utility scripts and tools using python or shell 

Hands-on experience in using DevOps tool set Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Sonar, Fortify, Spinnaker etc. 

Experience in building and deploying docker images 

Knowledge of implementing Disaster Recovery solutions on-premises or cloud 

Experience working with agile tools preferably Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence 

Experience developing unit tests for pipelines 

Knowledge of 12 factor app methodology 

Certified Solution Architect in AWS or Azure 

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science 

Experience in designing and developing AI/ML solutions. 

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology.  Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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