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TECHNICAL ARCHITECT with AWS (REMOTE/Green Card/US Citizens only
Remote, Remote · Information TechnologyNorthHill Technology Resources has an immediate need for a Technical Architect to support a key Federal Initiative. This is a fully remote, direct-hire role with our client, and award winning Federal Integrator.
Job Title: Technical Architect
Location: US-Remote
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Job Title: Technical Architect
Location: US-Remote
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for driving multiple customer solution design projects in parallel;
- Conducts business and technical discovery with customers;
- Finds novel solutions, architectures and use cases to help customers meet their objectives;
- Provides robust recommendations for engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps. Presents proposals to senior government officials in a clear and compelling way;
- Has a balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high- level technical solutions to business problems and to tie solutions to program success criteria.
- Capable of independently applying a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
- Responsible for, or assists in, the designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modem state-of-the art information systems; Analyzes available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them.
- 10+ years of comprehensive experience in architecting sustainable enterprise scale architectures, cloud applications and solutions, enterprise scale systems modernization, cloud-native architectures, microservices architecture and containerized applications
- Recognized AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
- Provide overall cloud solution architecture that includes evaluation, selection, and integration of critical technical components that meets the defined functional, non-functional and security requirements of the ASSIST system.
- Provide technical leadership in support of ASSIST system migration to cloud (AWS), with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms (AWS). Additionally, provide and implement recommendations based on the AWS well-architected framework.
- 8+ years’ experience in emerging technologies one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture, security architecture, data architecture)
- extensive experience in technical roadmap management, technical debt management, developing proof of concept based on current and emerging technologies
- Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (E.g. - Java, Javascript (including AngularJS), Python, Rust, Go, Ruby or PHP)
- Extensive experience in using major cloud platforms (AWS preferred) to build, design, architect, deploy and support enterprise scale applications
- Expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces
- Experience with how containerization is performed with applications. Able to advise on the best forms of developing containerized applications. (i.e. Docker, Rocket, etc.)
- Experience in architecting and implementing CICD automation and Zero Downtime deployments
- Experience with how container organization works and the application architecture to take advantage of that (Kubernetes, Universal Control Plane UCP, Helm, Flux etc.)
- Experience defining and driving SecDevOps best practices within large teams.
- Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration roadmaps for large scale applications.
- Experience in building applications as composition of decoupled services and independently deployable units using service-oriented, micro service, and/or API based architectures at an enterprise scale.
- Experience with event-driven applications using queues, service bus and other related patterns.
- Experience in translating business requirements into technical specifications and solutions.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Hands-on experience in developing concepts and work with limited direction.
- Strong analytical, communication, presentation and learning skills.
- Experience with federal acquisition systems and processes.
- Experience in working closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for technical issues and architecture framework capabilities for use by other development teams.
Qualifications:
- Master’s Base Knowledge/Skill Level Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required. Provides technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
- Establishes goals and plans that meet project objectives.
- Has domain and expert technical knowledge.
- Directs and controls activities for a client, having overall responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are met.
- Interactions involve client negotiations and interfacing with senior management.
- Decision-making and domain knowledge may have a critical impact on overall project implementation.
- May supervise others.
- At least 10+ years related work experience
- Work experience may be substituted by education at the rate of 1.5 years of experience for every year of education.
- Bachelors degree is four years of education, and a Masters degree is six years of education. The work experience to be substituted for education must be in a relevant field such as Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Science, etc.
- If a labor category requires work experience and a specific education level, education may not also be used to fill the work experience requirement.