Sr. Senior Cloud Application Architect

Sr. Senior Cloud Application Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA

Duration: 14 Months

The Senior Cloud Application Architect will be involved in the design, implementation, and management of technology-based business solutions to meet business and technical requirements for Georgia Child Welfare – Office of Information Technology program initiatives. In addition, be accountable for analyzing and designing the infrastructure architecture. The ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization on architecture is critical.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable and robust software application architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, enterprise standards, and industry best practices.
• Design, implement, and manage AWS Cloud architecture, focusing on performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Implement containerized solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate AI and machine learning technologies into our applications, enhancing user experience and driving innovation.
• Architect and oversee the development of web applications using ReactJS and other modern web technologies, optimizing for user experience and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, resolve architectural issues, and ensure successful project execution.
• Help modernize existing architecture and core technologies.
• Owning the end-to-end delivery of solutions which will include gathering technical requirements, designing, developing, testing, and releasing Infrastructure as Code.
• Analyze and implement configuration changes and assist in the design of cloud related solutions to meet both functional and technical requirements.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, providing recommendations for adopting new tools and technologies to improve our technology stack.
• Communicate with all parties involved including senior management, developers, architects, and end users, who may be based in different locations and time zones.
• Coordinate with and responsible for communicating with other teams within DHS and vendors as needed.
• Creating and updating applicable technical documentation. Review technical documents produced by vendors.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or Engineering.
• Minimum 12 years’ experience developing IT application architecture solutions for organization's business concerns.
• Demonstrated experience in Core Java / J2EE technologies such as concurrency, JDBC, Spring, Hibernate etc., and Python programming languages.
• Extensive expertise in web technologies particularly ReactJS and related frameworks.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience and in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Extensive working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in AWS Cloud architecture, including EC2, S3,RDS, LAMBDA etc.
• Proficiency in messaging frameworks including Kafka, JMS,MQ, and Active MQ.
• Experience with data modeling and database development including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microservices architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Development and build tools (GIT, Jenkins, Maven, etc.).
• Knowledge of Front, Middle and back-office functions, and applications.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle for Iterative, Agile, and traditional approaches.
• Create and maintain comprehensive architectural and design documentation, ensuring that all technical solutions are well-documented.
• Experience with release management and an understanding of architectural schematics.
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitLab, GitHub.
• Developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
• Monitor and optimize application performance, ensuring scalability as user demands grow.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
• Collaborates with system analyst, engineers, programmers to design systems to support applications.
• Excellent communication skills verbal & written in English. To be able to communicate with IT teams and departments, end users and vendors.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Ability to support project team to prioritize activities and provide deliverables as planned.
• Experience in BMC Control M Administration, calendars, and automated job scheduling system.

Desirable Experience:

• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have the experience and demonstrate the ability to work on these technologies.
• Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash, Powershell, Python).