Cloud Architect

Position: Cloud Solutions Architect

Position Location: 2-3 days a week in office.

Pittsburgh, PA, Strongsville, OH, Phoenix, AZ

Duration: 12 Months

Working Hours (Flexible): core EST business hours

Travel: possible for planning sessions 1-2 times a year

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Roles and Responsibilities:

• Evaluate requests for solution architecture services that have been submitted to have starting requirements and stakeholders identified.
• Ensure that business outcomes / problem statement / requirements / use cases are adequately documented by requestor / Business System Analyst (BSA) / product owner
• Review request against existing service offering matrix to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Work with product organization to prioritize work against other competing priorities.
• Creation of draft artifacts and begin investigation, exploration, technologies available and other constraints that may be involved.
• Identify any additional stakeholders, both business and technology.
• Engage relevant vendors, technology owners/SMEs, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, product owners to ensure feasibly, best practices, standards, and expectations are met
• Creation of UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.
• Creation of Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) context diagram, functional flow diagram, cross-functional flow diagram, and application configuration flowchart diagram.
• Review and evaluate options and technologies available that could be used to satisfy the requested service offering
• Know and understand many different technologies and how they relate to each other
• Document assumptions, risks, and decisions
• Ensure/document/confirm deliverables align to documented architectural guiding principles
• Present deliverables in design review to all stakeholders
• Obtain artifact approval from all necessary stakeholders
• Articulate cost/benefit or trade-off analysis (e.g. guiding principles, technologies, etc.)
• Formulate, document and defend new technology strategies
• Perform peer review of other designs

Technical Skills:

• Most critical: Public Cloud infrastructure technologies. Deployments in the cloud. Kafka/streaming. Microservice.
• Working knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) developmental modeling language
• Working knowledge of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams
• Working knowledge of and experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container-based systems
• Working knowledge of and experience with Kafka, MQ, or similar event or messaging based systems
• Working knowledge of Cloud-Native design principles, such as 12-Factor App
• Working knowledge of Microservice design principles
• Working knowledge of and experience with Public Cloud infrastructure and provisioning (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), such as Azure, AWS, GCP
• 1 year experience with source code using git or similar distributed version control.
• 1 year experience with technical documentation creation using Confluence or similar wiki systems.
• 1 year experience with work assignment issue tracking using Jira or similar ticket systems.
• Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).

Degrees/Certifications:

• Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).

Interview Process:

1- HM- 30 mins

2- Panel interview- technical- 1 hr