Senior Cloud Architect - Remote at The Evolvers Group

Hi

We have a Cloud Architect position with our direct Client, the Federal Reserve Board, that I’m hoping you’ll be interested in. Please go through the details below and, if you're interested in applying, get back to me with the attached application form filled in, as well as your current resume in Word format.

Job Description:

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Integrated Research and Analytics Platform (IRAP) is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides seamless data management and analytics experience that allows Board researchers the ability to search data catalogues, access data, and collaborate with others. IRAP is looking for a motivated Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the platform. This will be a full-time position.

Required Skills

The candidate shall also demonstrate the following knowledge and experience:

1. 10 years’ experience designing and building performant, cost-optimized systems in AWS.
2. 10 years' experience designing data platforms, data lakes, data meshes, data fabrics, data warehouses, or large data management systems.
3. 8 years' experience using Agile software development methodologies.
4. 8 years’ experience designing and implementing data pipelines/ETL/ELT technologies.
5. 8 years’ experience with designing databases, including creating entity relationship diagrams for logical and physical database models and associated  data   

     dictionaries.

6. Knowledge of data technologies such as SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Airflow etc.
7. Experience presenting technical solutions to the Architecture/Software review board.
8. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
9. Knowledge of NIST & FISMA security review and ATO process.
10. Experience acquiring an in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand  

        varied customer deployments.

11. Hand-on experience building cloud infrastructure on AWS.
12. Hands-on experience implementing data pipelines in AWS.

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

1. Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to IRAP and associated technologies.
2. Drives opportunities for reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration.
3. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others.
4. Design data architecture, data engineering, and analytics design patterns to enhance the capabilities of IRAP platform; create conceptual, logical, and physical design and associated design documents and diagrams for IRAP.
5. Perform evaluation of software tooling options by defining comprehensive evaluation

criteria and rating tooling options against the defined evaluation criteria.

6. Conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) for technical solutions, and software tools.
7. Represent IRAP in Architecture Review Board and Software Review Board to get approval for designs and software tools including Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) tools.
8. Assist in definition of security controls implementation guidance for IRAP in accordance with FISMA and NIST 800-53.
9. Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with partner architects and technical

specialists, technical decision makers, and business stakeholders.

10. Receive and synthesize data about customer business and technical requirements,

addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates and proves those

solutions' capability and value through vibrant technology design.

11. Guides other team members on Cloud technology, data architecture, data engineering, and DevSecOps.
12. Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your reply today.