Cloud Architect

ALTA IT has a Long-Term Contract position open for a Cloud Architect.

100% Remote - EST Only

Per Federal Govt Sector U.S Citizenship or Green Card is required

Ability to pass Federal background check is required for Level 4 Public Trust Clearance

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Integrated Research and Analytics Platform (IRAP) is a cloud-based Data and Analytics platform that provides seamless data management and analytics experience that allows Board researchers the ability to search data catalogs, access data, and collaborate with others.

BACKGROUND:

Looking for a motivated Cloud Architect to join the team to support operations, maintenance, and enhancement of the platform.

REQUIREMENTS:

The candidate shall also demonstrate the below knowledge and experience:

• 10 years' experience designing and building performant, cost-optimized systems in
• AWS.
• 10 years' experience designing data platforms, data lakes, data meshes, data fabrics, data
• warehouses, or large data management systems.
• 8 years' experience using Agile software development methodologies.
• 8 years' experience designing and implementing data pipelines/ETL/ELT technologies.
• 8 years' experience with designing databases, including creating entity relationship
• diagrams for logical and physical database models and associated data dictionaries.
• Knowledge of data technologies such as SQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Airflow etc.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to Architecture/Software review board.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with
• stakeholders of varying levels of technology acumen.
• Knowledge of NIST & FISMA security review and ATO process.
• Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to
• isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer
• deployments.
• Hand-on experience building cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Hands-on experience implementing data pipelines in AWS.

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

• Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to IRAP and associated technologies.
• Drives opportunities for reuse, best practice sharing, and consumption acceleration.
• Proactively identifies gaps through delivery and communicating those gaps to others.
• Design data architecture, data engineering, and analytics design patterns to enhance the capabilities of IRAP platform; create conceptual, logical, and physical design and associated design documents and diagrams for IRAP.
• Perform evaluation of software tooling options by defining comprehensive evaluation criteria and rating tooling options against the defined evaluation criteria.
• Conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) for technical solutions, and software tools.
• Represent IRAP in Architecture Review Board and Software Review Board to get approval for designs and software tools including Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) tools.
• Assist in definition of security controls implementation guidance for IRAP in accordance with FISMA and NIST 800-53.
• Develop and expand existing impactful relationships with partner architects and technical specialists, technical decision makers, and business stakeholders.
• Receive and synthesize data about customer business and technical requirements, addresses them with technical architecture(s), and demonstrates and proves those solutions' capability and value through vibrant technology design.
• Guides other team members on Cloud technology, data architecture, data engineering, and DevSecOps.
• Enhance capabilities of IRAP in collaboration with Board Data Architects, Cloud Administrators, and other stakeholders.

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