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GCP Architect
POSTED : January 27, 2025 LOCATION : Atlanta Georgia POSITION ID : #247402 EMPLOYMENT TYPE : Contract to Hire
Location : Atlanta, Georgia
Type : Contract to Hire
Job #247402
Role Purpose
The Sr IT Architect is a seasoned member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The Sr IT Architect helps set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operate within. In addition, the Sr IT Architect helps develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.
Key Accountabilities
Lead the design of cloud-native, scalable, and cost-effective architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Provide expertise in designing solutions for data processing, storage, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence on GCP.
Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, integrating GCP services with on-premises and other cloud platforms.
Define, document, and evangelize the data integration patterns between GCP the eco-system (AWS, Salesforce, SaaS, PaaS, and On-Prem)
Implement security best practices for GCP environments, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data protection.
Design and enforce security controls such as network isolation, firewalls, and VPNs to safeguard sensitive data and applications.
Create and maintain detailed architectural artifacts (, architecture diagrams, design documents, data models) to visualize, communicate, and document the cloud solutions and architectures using tools like Lucidchart to create and update diagrams that represent cloud architectures, data flows, security models, and integration points.
Document decision-making processes, trade-offs, and rationale behind architecture choices to support future scaling, optimization, and troubleshooting.
Develops a unified architecture that is scalable across the organization and ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.
Translates industry technology direction to business value and serves as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing new research and innovative approaches.
Accountable for the development of high-level business cases, with the ability to influence senior leadership, business partners, architects and key stakeholders within the architecture team and other functional areas on the adoption of technical solutions and drive the solution to completion.
Research and evaluate, or provide direction to others researching and evaluating, new technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.
Analyzes systems and processes from end to end, partnering with IT and business colleagues as appropriate.
Provides guidance and enterprise?wide influence leading to solutions that are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.
Advice in decisions regarding strategic partnerships, vendor selection and acquisitions.
Key Skills & Experiences
Education –
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
Experience –
Typically, a minimum of 10-15 years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
Technical skills and Knowledge –
Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.
Expert understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family.
Champion engineering process disciplines (, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).
Champion industry process improvement programs (, CMMI, IOS?9000, FDA, Six Sigma).
Required Skills :
Middleware Focused :
Java
REST
Enterprise Caching Architectures
Messaging Based Architecture
Micro Service Architecture
Public Facing APIs and API Gateways
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Data Transformation and ETL
Data Focused :
Big Data
Data Design Principles and Best Practices
Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms
Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions
BI tools
GCP Analytic Tools
Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
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