Enterprise Cloud Architect

DataStaff, Inc. is currently seeking an Enterprise Cloud Architect for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Durham, NC.

*This position is hybrid

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the Department’s cloud computing strategy. This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
• Indirectly lead teams of technologists to advance solutions delivery roadmap, providing guidance and oversight.
• Evaluate projects from an Enterprise perspective, ensuring alignment with business needs, IT roadmap, architecture and security standards, internal controls, and IT methodology.
• Develop/ Implement Cloud Strategy, Cloud Governance/Principles Framework
• Collaborate with Stakeholders and develop/ Implement Cloud Adoption Framework
• Establish Cloud Advisory Council
• Establish leadership, define standards, process, and community of practice to facilitate cloud computing within our organization in support of DHHS business and strategy requirements.
• Leads architectural content across all aspects of architecture in support of IT delivery.
• Provide leadership regarding cloud architecture and the implementation of infrastructure to support the AWS migration of systems.
• Establish and maintain cloud architecture, tools, and processes.
• Contribute to the success of application migration projects by supporting multiple customers with environment support and monitoring of the cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, and AZURE)
• Architect and improve continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes through infrastructure automation.
• Lead cross functional project teams, and workgroups.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders as well as technical leaders within IT and other engineers throughout the organization (product engineering, data/application platforms, etc.)
• Guide Solution Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
• Be the champion for a cloud and security-first mindset and ensure solution follows the security guardrails/policies defined by PSO.
• Mindful of the Healthcare Industry and Digital Health trends.
• Foster innovation and implement creative out-of-the-box ideas by conducting brainstorming sessions, hackathons and other innovation events and elevate the thinking.
• Assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Research and present ideas for the improvement of systems and processes for consideration by project managers
• Provide leadership in adapting existing application architectures to cloud native architectures.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of AWS RDS, Aurora, Lambda, NoSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, and other datastore cloud surrounding technologies
• Knowledge of UNIX (Linux) and Windows Server environment and scripting (bash, shell, Python etc.)
• Knowledge and Hands on implementation experience on the AWS Networking components.
• Active status as an AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional preferred)
• TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework – Certification (Professional preferred)
• Track record of evaluating plans to identify risk, ensure alignment of goals, plans, and priorities across teams and functions, and meet commitments; ability to create clarity about what success looks like and inspire velocity in self and others to achieve results that accelerate functional impact.
• Capable of stepping up to address difficult issues and saying what needs to be said.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures
• Demonstrated knowledge of data security and compliance controls
• Demonstrated knowledge of advanced automation (bots, AI, low-code platforms)
• Familiar with Microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Systems Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Management, Engineering, or another related discipline
• 10 years of professional IT experience working with Windows Server or Linux environments.
• Experience in complex, cross-functional team environments

Required Skills:

• 5 Years - Experience with AWS cloud (IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, LAMBDA)
• 5 Years - Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability
• 5 Years - Strong supervision, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills.
• Demonstrated presentation, training skills, oral and written communication skills.
• 5 Years - Ability to communicate effectively at all job levels, use excellent evaluation skills, and ability to relay information in legible reports as required
• 5 Years - Experience with AWS cloud services API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElastiCache
• 5 Years - Experience leading organizations through major change initiatives
• AWS Cloud Certified
• 5 Years - Experience in IT and stakeholder relationship management

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Cloud technologies & SaaS applications running on Cloud
• Strong experience with Cloud migrations/DevSecOps and implementations.
• Experience with implementing one or more RPA technologies.
• Experience collaborating with Federal, State and Local Government
• Experience managing implementation of a statewide IT project
• Experience in establishing and implementing governance model for the Cloud Migration and transformation efforts across programs

This position is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months