AWS Solutions Architect
12 Months Contract
Raleigh, NC or Foster City, CA (hybrid)
LinkedIn profile is mandatory
NO Sub vending / Only independent contractors
Consultant has to be local or Nearby location
Principal Responsibilities
Lead joint solution / offering architecture discussions with partner architects and support development
Drive holistic solutions for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization
Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud, and cloud data warehouse
Contribute to the cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.
Key Qualifications :
- Bachelors' Degree and a minimum of 10 years of professional IT experience
- Proven experience in successfully building and defending solution architecture with different levels of technical partners -Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, etc.
Technical Qualifications :
Required cloud competencies :
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Experience in architecting data warehouse solutions for 10 yearsStrong experience (8 years) implementing Cloud and infrastructure components for AWS (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud architectures and designsKnowledge of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR / Dataproc / Databricks etcAbility to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer -e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etcKnowledge of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including :Data layers and purposeServerless computeProcessing run time -ETL vs Spark run time, etc.Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption, and certificatesAbility to recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategyMetadata and data catalogsAbility to compare and contrast across technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerationsExperience Optimizations including increasing Operational efficiencies on AWS while reducing overall DevOps costsCan clearly articulate Enterprise Standards & Operational Governance mechanisms that can be built-in for each layer of AWS Cloud data and analytics (Ingestion, Transformation, Consumption, Governance, Business touchpoints)Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure, and security standardsTechnical knowledge on EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, GlueSecurity architecture designCreate Architectural standards and policy documents to socialize and align cross-functional teamsHelp delivery team to create business friendly touchpoints / UI / Experience with the new AWS platformGood knowledge and experience in Lifesciences (Commercial, Managed Markets domains).Excellent communication skillsExpertise in preparing presentations, executive readouts
