Solutions Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Cloud Architect and Advisory Job ID: 25-06996 Duration: 05 Months On Contract Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Evaluate projects from an Enterprise perspective, ensuring alignment with business needs, IT roadmap, architecture and security standards, internal controls, and IT methodology. Develop/ Implement Cloud Strategy, Cloud Governance/Principles Framework Collaborate with Stakeholders and develop/ Implement Cloud Adoption Framework Establish and run the Cloud Advisory Council Define standards, process, and community of practice to facilitate cloud computing within our organization in support of DHHS business and strategy requirements. Leads architectural content across all aspects of architecture in support of IT delivery. Provide leadership regarding cloud architecture and the implementation of infrastructure to support the AWS migration of systems. Establish and maintain cloud architecture, tools, and processes. Contribute to the success of application migration projects by supporting multiple customers with environment support and monitoring of the cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, and AZURE) Architect and improve continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes through infrastructure automation. Lead cross functional project teams, and workgroups. Build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders as well as technical leaders within IT and other engineers throughout the organization (product engineering, data/application platforms, etc.) Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards. Be the champion for a cloud and security-first mindset and ensure solution follows DHHS security guardrails/policies defined by PSO. Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends. Foster innovation and implement creative out-of-the-box ideas by conducting brainstorming sessions, hackathons and other innovation events and elevate the thinking. Assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise. Research and present ideas for the improvement of systems and processes for consideration by project Managers Provide leadership in adapting existing application architectures to cloud native architectures. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities / Competencies: Knowledge of AWS RDS, Aurora, Lambda, NoSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, and other datastore cloud surrounding technologies Knowledge of UNIX (Linux) and Windows Server environment and scripting (bash, shell, Python etc.) Knowledge and Hands on implementation experience on the AWS Networking components. Active status as an AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional preferred) TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework Certification (Professional preferred) Track record of evaluating plans to identify risk, ensure alignment of goals, plans, and priorities across teams and functions, and meet commitments; ability to create clarity about what success looks like and inspire velocity in self and others to achieve results that accelerate functional impact. Capable of stepping up to address difficult issues and saying what needs to be said. Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures Demonstrated knowledge of data security and compliance controls Demonstrated knowledge of advanced automation (bots, AI, low-code platforms) Familiar with Microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure and migrating existing workloads to the cloud. Minimum Education and Experience: Bachelor s degree or higher in Information Systems Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Management, Engineering, or another related discipline 10+ years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments. 5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud (IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, LAMBDA, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElastiCache) 5+ years of experience leading organizations through major change initiatives 7+ years of experience in IT and stakeholder relationship management #J-18808-Ljbffr