Cloud Data Architect

Cloud Data Architect

Note: 100% remote role but need local consultant (should be within 75 miles of Reston, VA)

Job Description

General Requirements:

• Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.
• Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud
• Positive attitude and a strong commitment to delivering quality work.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends.
• Effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated cloud reports to management and other IT development partners.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, cloud native patterns, container management and cloud computing capabilities especially as offered by AWS.
• Deep knowledge of information architecture methodologies; enterprise-wide data architecture for designing and building data lakes, data warehouses, data marts and BI reporting databases.
• Sound knowledge of distributed data architecture concepts such as sharding, caching, map-reduce, stream processing & two-phase commits.
• Sound knowledge of data security & compliance.
• Must be AWS Architect (Associate or Professional) certified.
• AWS specialty certification is a plus
• The ability to visualize data using tools and libraries to solve business problems is a plus.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning concepts such as KNN, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, Neural Networks and deploying them on Sagemaker is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and technology leads to set transformation goals and objectives to launch key initiatives.
• Develop and/or maintain business vision, strategic plans including the design of transformation roadmap with clear milestones, workstreams, and owners.
• In partnership with business sponsors and leads, envision, plan, implement, communicate, promote and update the target business architecture over multiple time horizons.
• Fully articulate current and target state business design using capability models, process models, operating models and motivation models.
• Design the architecture for migrating on-premise applications, data warehouse and data marts to containers and data lake on AWS Cloud.
• Architect solutions that employs container and serverless patterns using AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda AWS cloud to realize business capabilities in a safe and secure manner.
• Architect solutions for the design and implementation of Big & Fast Data Infrastructure on AWS cloud using Kafka, Kinesis, Glue, Athena, Redshift, DynamoDB & Quick Sight.