What are the responsibilities and job description for the cloud data architect position at NextGen Information Services?
Job Title - Cloud Architect
Location - Remote (Local to Texas )
Duration : 6 Months
Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for:
● Provide services in relation to data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
● Develop migration strategies from on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
● Develop, update and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
● Design and implement data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
● Ensure data integrity, security, and performance for all databases
● Design and implement data integration solutions to enable seamless dataflow across systems
● Collaborate with cross functional teams to implement cloud-based data integration solutions
● Perform database optimization, capacity planning and performance monitoring
● Provide expertise with data migration and data archival in AWS cloud
● Provide expertise on AWS Cloud database infrastructure
● Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
● Perform database tuning, benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
● Leads and ensures HHSC best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud.
● Supporting DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools.
● Other duties as assigned.
Education
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.
Certification:
● Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
● Cloud Infrastructure Certifications
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years
Required/Preferred
Experience
8
Required
Experience with data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
8
Required
Experience developing migration strategies for on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
8
Required
Experience developing, updating and maintaining conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
8
Required
Experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL in HA deployments and Expertise in data storage
8
Required
Experience migrating Oracle RAC/Exadata infrastructure to a public cloud environment
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing effective and efficient data models
8
Required
Experience with database performance tuning benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
8
Required
Hands-on experience with Agile development, Program management/project management experience for large cloud migrations
8
Required
Hands on experience with database services like RDS, RDS Proxy and other Data Services.
8
Required
Experience with replication of databases and other types of data.
8
Required
Experience transforming data into cloud native storage and other formats.
8
Required
Experience using standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
8
Required
Hands-on experience with adjacent technology areas including Security, Identity / Access Management and Monitoring.
6
Preferred
Hands-on experience as a platform engineer for Cloud platform
6
Preferred
Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
6
Preferred
Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms
6
Preferred
Experience with APIs design and implementation.
6
Preferred
Experience with Web services and RESTful APIs
6
Preferred
Experience with Monitoring tools
6
Preferred
Experience with DevOps tools GitLab, Jenkins, and Container
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Pay: $75.00 - $82.57 per hour
Experience:
- Data modeling: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote
Salary : $75 - $83
