AWS Architect

Job Description

ComResource is looking for an AWS Architect.

This person will assist in the creation of best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing strategies and solutions in alignment with IT strategy and guidelines. They will help in the development of actionable blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards, and guidelines for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure information technology architecture is consistent, usable, and secure, and adds value to the business. They will facilitate the design and implementation of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solutions and provide technical guidance to others.

Responsibilities:

Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting

Participates in formulating solution estimates and work planning including determining appropriate task sequencing and identification of technical skill sets required

Builds consensus around principles of infrastructure architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles

Participates in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options

Maintains operational, architectural, and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and blueprints

Evaluates strengths and flaws in infrastructure design including performance, quality, availability, simplicity of design, security, and total cost of ownership

Assists in the facilitation of project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating, and supporting to ensure smooth transitions

Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners and provides consultation to the business teams

Troubleshoots, recommends, and executes action plans for issue resolution

Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects

Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares bench-marking reports and presentations

Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers

Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their designs and resolve any issues that arise

Stay updated on current technology trends and industry best practices

Provides technical leadership and works effectively with different teams including Product Managers, Project Managers, and Engineers

Fosters a healthy, collaborative, and productive scrum team culture

Works with other leads in a project setting to define and execute a software architecture that is sustainable, flexible, and scalable

Leads key initiative design, highly capable of completing tasks both independently with minimal guidance and leading a team technically

Exchanges information clearly and precisely, in verbal or written form, by sharing ideas, reporting facts and other information, responding to questions, and employing active listening techniques

Works with networks and understands internet security protocols. Analyze existing systems to ensure adequate security and business continuity

Works with web servers, application server administration, and web applications deployment

Routing and switching technologies including TCP, UDP, IP, BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, 802.x, WLAN, and ISO models

Create designs to support appropriate technology choices

Create strategy for server & network technologies

Promotes and conducts software development best practices such as dependency injection and test-driven development to create high-quality, flexible, scalable applications that can be easily configured for different client needs

Assisting in the structuring of data including methods of storing and retrieving data

Facilitates and creates reporting tools and automates the delivery of reports to dashboards

Creates data interfaces and facilitates API extraction of data

Design and architect Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions

Provide technical leadership experience with IAM Tools like ForgeRock IAM and CyberArk. Acting as a technical authority for IAM technologies while providing technology guidance to other IT teams

Define solutions and best practices for a suite of ForgeRock IAM products and services used within the firm to secure identity and access to resources, sensitive data, applications, and services

Support IAM becoming a product differentiator by providing best-in-class support and functionality

Guide project teams with the implementations consistent with company policies and practices

Align projects with business and IT strategy to help projects sustain alignment with company policy and standards

Write policy and standards as needed to sustain company compliance with regulatory changes

Work with development and QA teams to ensure the use of secure coding practices and verification methods

Development of product roadmaps and alignment of efforts to meet security goals

Essentials:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area required. Master’s preferred

Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required

Azure or AWS Solution Architect certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged

Prior development and scrum/agile experience. Experience with RDBMS (Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL 2005/2008), including database design, developing stored procedures and functions, and performance tuning

Working experiences with No-SQL databases such as MongoDB, Azure CosmosDB, and AWS DynamoDB are preferred

5 years’ experience in the implementation and maintenance of enterprise-level systems

Experience in a large complex enterprise environment, preferably in Healthcare, Insurance, or similarly government-regulated environment

Strong communication and written skills. Ability to work out differences of opinions and publish scalable and quality system design based on specification

Strong knowledge of OOAD and multi-tier architectures, including MVC/MVP/MVVM design patterns

Strong knowledge of enterprise software development techniques such as SOA / EDA-based design, Microservices using Web API, and Queue-based processing using any messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ, MSMQ, etc.

Ability to develop and maintain large-scale, high-performing, and high transactional systems

Ability to diagram and document designs and requirements

Knowledge of Security protocols and the design, integration, and maintenance of these protocols

Ability to manage, assess, and negotiate with vendors

Ability to mentor and lend guidance to team as needed

Expert knowledge of architectural design

Demonstrated ability to work in teams and capture ideas into strategy and standards

Ability to execute governance of cloud standards and strategy

Ability to set strategic architectural direction

Ability to identify architecture components for reuse

A clear understanding of the architecture standards

Ability to communicate effectively with Leadership, Business Partners, and IT Infrastructure team

Knowledge of IT and IT’s priorities, strategies, and current capabilities

Knowledge of technology and the current technical environment

Ability to break down the requirements into projects and determine timelines and dependencies with the other domains/ projects

Understanding of ongoing and planned projects and their inter-dependencies/ timelines

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Flexibility to adapt readily to changing business needs

Enthusiastic, can-do attitude with the drive to learn and improve

Infrastructure:

Ability to understand networks and internet security protocols. Analyze existing systems to ensure adequate security and business continuity

Knowledge of web server and application server administration and web application deployment

Knowledge of server sizing and performance

Knowledge of network design and performance

Familiarity with routing and switching technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, 802.x, WLAN, and ISO models

Knowledge of Firewalls and ACLs

Knowledge of VMWare ESX and Microsoft Hypervisor

Familiarity with Cloud Infrastructure including infrastructure as code (prefer Azure and AWS)

Knowledge of patching and assessment technologies

Data:

Knowledge and understanding of structuring data and the methods of storing and retrieving data

Knowledge of data masking and encryption, reporting tools, and automating the delivery of reports to dashboards and customers

Ability to create data interfaces and API extraction of data

Familiarity of data tools such as Data Bricks, PowerBI, Elasticsearch, and SAS

Knowledge of relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Greenplum, Hadoop, MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL, & Oracle SQL

DBA skills such as DBA backup and performance tuning

Strong statistical skills

Identity:

Ability to develop IAM strategies and roadmaps that support business goals

Ability to design and architect Identity and Access Management solutions

Knowledge of IAM tools such as ForgeRock, SailPoint, and Oracle Access Manager

Knowledge of privileged access management experience with tools like CyberArk

Strong knowledge of modern Identity Management protocols and standards, frameworks, federation technologies, and solutions (for example ADFS, SAML, MFA, LDAP, and Service Principals)