AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Solutions Architect

12 Months Contract

Raleigh, NC or Foster City, CA (hybrid)

LinkedIn profile is mandatory

NO Sub vending /Only independent contractors

Consultant has to be local or Nearby location

Principal Responsibilities

Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects and support development

Drive holistic solutions for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization

Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud, and cloud data warehouse

Contribute to the cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.

Key Qualifications:

Bachelors' Degree and a minimum of 10+ years of professional IT experience

Proven experience in successfully building and defending solution architecture with different levels of technical partners -Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, etc.

Technical Qualifications:

Required cloud competencies:

AWS Certified Solution Architect

Experience in architecting data warehouse solutions for 10+ years

Strong experience (8+ years) implementing Cloud and infrastructure components for AWS (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud architectures and designs

Knowledge of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc/Databricks etc

Ability to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer -e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etc

Knowledge of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.

Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including:

Data layers and purpose

Serverless compute

Processing run time -ETL vs Spark run time, etc.

Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption, and certificates

Ability to recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategy

Metadata and data catalogs

Ability to compare and contrast across technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerations

Experience Optimizations including increasing Operational efficiencies on AWS while reducing overall DevOps costs

Can clearly articulate Enterprise Standards & Operational Governance mechanisms that can be built-in for each layer of AWS Cloud data and analytics (Ingestion, Transformation, Consumption, Governance, Business touchpoints)

Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure, and security standards

Technical knowledge on EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, Glue

Security architecture design

Create Architectural standards and policy documents to socialize and align cross-functional teams

Help delivery team to create business friendly touchpoints/UI/Experience with the new AWS platform

Good knowledge and experience in Lifesciences (Commercial, Managed Markets domains).

Excellent communication skills

Expertise in preparing presentations, executive readouts