What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Solutions Architect position at Incedo Inc.?
Title: AWS Solutions Architect
Location: Charlotte, NC/Jersey City, NJ
Duration: Full-Time
About the role
As a senior Solutions Architect, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based solutions that align with the organization's strategic objectives. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assess existing IT infrastructure, and develop architecture blueprints to guide the adoption of AWS services and technologies.
As a senior solutions architect, you work closely with a development team to design software
based on customer requests and oversee the work of junior solutions architects to ensure quality
products and service. Your duties include handling technical pre-sales support and providing input on solutions, structure, and growth for the business.
This is a hands-on role best suited for a senior or principal engineer looking to transition into a client facing role and excited about the prospect of solving a variety of challenging engineering problems.
Incedo teams are cross-functional in nature and may be geographically distributed across the US and India.
Responsibilities
- Architectural Design: Lead the design and development of cloud architecture solutions on AWS, ensuring alignment with business objectives, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Cloud Strategy: Collaborate with senior leadership to define the organization's cloud strategy and roadmap, identifying opportunities to leverage AWS services for business growth and efficiency.
- Solution Development: Design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions on AWS, incorporating services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, and others as appropriate.
- Migration Planning: Develop migration strategies and execution plans for migrating on-premises applications and workloads to AWS, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
- Security and Compliance: Implement security controls and best practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and applications hosted on AWS. Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure and services to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Implement automation and DevOps practices to streamline operations.
- Capacity Planning: Assess resource utilization and forecast capacity requirements to ensure adequate provisioning of AWS resources to support current and future workloads.
- Cost Management: Develop and implement cost optimization strategies to minimize AWS spending while maximizing value. Monitor usage patterns, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement cost control measures.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, including developers, engineers, and architects, ensuring alignment with AWS best practices and architectural standards.
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Qualifications
18-22 years of experience in leading Enterprise Architecture Planning, Product development, Consulting and Solutioning. Strong understanding of enterprise IT landscape and is capable of aligning to organizations vision.
- Strong architecture experience with the following: Microservices architectures, Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain Driven Design, Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and Performance testing.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud platform and the services.
- Demonstrated experience in Legacy transformation and IT modernization.
- Demonstrated experience in cloud migration.
- Hands on experience with at least one (preferably two) API gateway platform (MuleSoft, Apigee, WSO2, AWS API gateway, etc.)
- Hands on experience with Spring boot, java, containers, SQL DB, NoSQL DB, caching engine, APM AWS.
- Experience in using Domain Driven Design.
- Experience in creating products with scaling and high-performance products and Platform architecture (PaaS, SaaS).
- Experience in Structured (MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres etc.) and unstructured (Mongo, Dynamo etc.) databases.
- Experience in building Mobile first Architected applications (Native and Hybrid)
- Experience in building new capabilities.
- Experience in providing technical solutions for proposals
- Experience in having consulting led discussions with the client
Soft Skills
- Effective communication to explain complex ideas so that they are easily understood by
- both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work under minimal supervision, navigate ambiguous environments and quickly
- adapt to change
- Problem solving skills – work with different groups like User Experience and business to
- solve end user problem and transformation
- Thought leadership and Architectural best practices in the context of client situations
