Cloud Solution Architect

Cloud Solution ArchitectRole closes on 5/2 at 10aClient: VA Dept of Behavioral Health and Developmental ScienceWork schedule is mostly remote out of Richmond, VAInterview is virtualLength of contract is 6 months with rolling extensionsI can submit 2 candidates for the role; there is a potential for this role to be permanent so candidates must be Green Card holders or USC (if converted to permanent status, we did not pay permanent placement fees)Requirements:Hands on solution development on AWS cloud using Data Engineering Services and integrating with various internal and external applications.Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs specifically tailored for cloud environments (e.g., AWS API Gateway).Experience with Power BI, Snowflake and AWS data Lake integrations or similar.Automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation.Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including developing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, version control, and collaboration tools.Data ingestion and transformation using Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, AWS DMS, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lambda, Amazon AppFlow.Setting up schedulers by using Amazon EventBridge, Apache Airflow, or time-based schedules for jobs and crawlers DynamoDB, Kinesis, RDS etc.Implementing data transformation services based on requirements using AWS Glue, Lambda etc.Using orchestration services to build workflows for data ETL pipelines (for example, Lambda, EventBridge, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow).