What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at V Group Inc.?
Description:
The Architect is a senior level resource with advanced, specialized knowledge and experience in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, including compute, storage, and application fabric, as well as services for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and serverless. The selected contractor must have proven project experience in the development, testing, and maintenance of Azure based production systems. This position will work with IT managers, business analysts, application developers, DBAs, network, and system staff to achieve project objectives - delivery dates, cost objectives, quality objectives, and program area customer satisfaction objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Manage assignments and track progress against agreed upon timelines.
- Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage work efforts, coordinating with the client Solution Management and other teams.
- Act as a partner consultant to the project team and be responsible to assess task quality and provide ongoing feedback to project members.
- Collaborate across the IT organization to define and apply enterprise level standards in solution architecture.
- Participate in status reviews, process reviews, deliverable reviews, and quality assurance work product reviews with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Participate in business and technical requirements gathering.
- Perform research on potential solutions and provide recommendations to the HHSDC Solution Management teams.
- Develop and implement solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
- Participate in testing of implemented solution(s).
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
- Give presentations for the IT and project stakeholder groups, as well as other offices and agencies involved with this project.
- Develops and maintains meticulous technical and procedural documentation.
- Ensure project compliance with relative federal and commonwealth standards and procedures.
- Conduct training and transfer of knowledge sessions for system and code maintenance.
- Complete weekly timesheet reporting in PeopleFluent/VectorVMS by COB each Friday.
- Complete weekly project status updates in Daptiv if necessary. This will be dependent on a project being entered in Daptiv.
- Provide weekly personal status reporting by COB Friday submitted on SharePoint.
- Utilize a SharePoint site for project and operational documentation; review existing documentation.
Required/Desired Skills:
- Software Development Required 12 Years
- Software Development Lead Required 5 Years
- Designer or Architect where leadership capabilities have been demonstrated on multiple mission critical systems Required 3 Years
- 4-year college degree in computer science or related field Required
- Advanced experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes. Required
- Researching, designing, and developing public and private cloud solutions, including impacts required for hybrid cloud computing Required
- Significant knowledge of software engineering, software architecture, data architecture, systems architecture, and data management Required
- Experience with CI/CD toolsets including version control systems (Git), development and maintenance of pipelines (Azure DevOps) Required
- Experience with migrating on-premises application systems to a cloud environment Required
- Analyzing and translating business requirements and use cases into optimized designs and developing sound solutions. Required
- Experience with data lakes, data bricks, and Azure database services. Required
- Experience with SQL, .Net, Python, and other programming languages. Required
- Ability to balance work between multiple projects and possess good organizational skills, with minimal or no direct supervision Required
- Ability to work and communicate collaboratively and effectively with colleagues, and as a member of a team. Required
- Ability to present complex technical concepts and data to a varied audience effectively Required
- Microsoft Azure certification Required
- Experience working in the public sector Highly desired
