What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Applications Architect position at ATC?
Title : IA-DOM-IWD-AA2-Senior Applications Architect (725608)
Location : 1000 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50266
Interview : WebEx
The Applications Architect (AA) is the functional expert for an application, a defined set of applications or a portfolio of related applications.
We are looking to hire an experienced AWS application architect for our Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Modernization Project.
ONLY SUBMIT RESOURCES THAT ARE ABLE TO BE ONSITE DAY 1. THIS POSITION REQURES RESOURCE TO WORK ONSITE A MINNIMUM OF 2 DAYS PER WEEK. NO FULL REMOTE OPTION. THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THIS RESOURCE LIVE / WORK IN THE DES MOINES METRO DURING ASSIGNMENT.. PLEASE LIMIT SUBMITTALS TO CANDIDATES WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE TO DES MOINES.
Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is a state agency committed to providing re-employment services for job seekers. We are looking to hire an experienced AWS application architect for our Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Modernization Project. This individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. The project aims to modernize IWD's UI Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry leading architecture and frameworks, with the goal of providing better service to both the agency staff and the end-users while positioning the agency for future technological improvements. This individual will provide technical leadership in architecting, implementing, and operationalizing AWS cloud hosting zones. The focus will be on security, full-stack automation, monitoring, and developer experience. You will be developer advocate for Cloud capabilities to influence and work across diverse teams to design and implement easy to use hybrid cloud environments. You will partner with Development, and Infrastructure teams with the goal of architecting the applications and how they leverage infrastructure services in cloud environments.
Requirements :
- Extensive experience in cloud architecture planning, estimating, application migration and cloud governance
- Proven skills in cloud-native development
- Use configuration management and tooling to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards
- Containerize and orchestrate container images effectively to meet performance requirements
- Experience in Java, Spring frameworks, SQL, Oracle, SOAP and REST web services
- Experience in microservices and SOA development
- Experience in establishing coding practices, code review standards and security protocols
- Experience in Okta integration through SAML and / or JWT
- Strong understanding of AWS well architected frameworks in cloud production environments and apply those principles while designing a solution.
- Good understanding of AWS network and security engineering principles
- Great communication skills and the ability to lead and work collaboratively in a team environment
- Knowledge and experience of Agile practices
- AWS Professional Solutions Architect certification is a plus
