As a Senior Architect you support delivery teams in detailed solution roadmaps for a well-defined set of capabilities or logical group of systems, services or projects.
You partner closely with engineers and project management to ensure that implementation meets design expectations. You are proactive in reaching out to architects and leaders in teams with which your technology integrates and you drive results through strong cross-functional collaboration.
You serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for capabilities in your portfolio and work actively within the Architecture Community of Practice.
Length : 6 month contract, with potential to extend
Associate Vendors : We are accepting applications from candidates who are currently authorized to work in the US for any employer without sponsorship.
Role & Responsibilities
- In partnership with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Engineers and other Architects, you provide leadership in defining project requirements and success criteria along with guiding the design throughout the development lifecycle.
- Participate and present at architecture design reviews.
- Proactively align with key stakeholders, seek organizational context, and apply learnings to architecture solutions; be comfortable supporting and communicating with diverse technical and business teams.
- Evaluate, document, and escalate alterations to future state architectures.
- Communicates trade-offs in different types of engineering and architecture processes and adjust your team’s process to meet the needs of the project and others on the team.
- Contribute to the growth and strength of the architecture community of practice by actively attending and presenting at community events.
Required Qualifications
- BS / BA in technology related discipline or relevant industry experience.
- Minimum 5 years of real-world experience developing, deploying, scaling, and maintaining software systems; a majority of this experience should come from working in and around cloud-based services.
- Payments and fraud experience for retail or eCommerce businesses
- Deep hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database components in Amazon AWS
- Able to design for specific security threat models and able to describe basic and advanced security and compliance aspects of cloud platform primitives.
- Be able to describe the key services of a given cloud platform and be able to select appropriately for given use cases, e.
g., compute, storage, analytics, cost etc.