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Job Role: Cloud Data Architect Job Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid - 3 days a week) Job Type: Contract W2 Job Description:

As a Cloud and Data Architect, you will be responsible for leading architectural decisions for the Cloud, and Data Enterprise Portfolios. You must have a deep understanding of technical architecture and have implemented solutions in a cloud environment focused on AWS or Azure. Knowledge of industry best practices around enterprise cloud security, architectures, and patterns. Experience with micro-services architectures and cloud migration for data is a plus. The architect will need to have experience implementing security for technical/deployment architectures using AWS Services as well as experience with Engineering Tools and capabilities to solve for inter-service communication, data hydration, application security, platform resiliency etc. Technical experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. Master s degree is preferred or equivalent Desired

Experiences

• 12+ years of progressive hands-on experience in application development with 6 years of solution architecture, systems architecture and engineering, analysis and applications programming, technical team leadership role is required
• A minimum of 5 years experience in working with AWS or Azure as a solution architect is required
• Experience with Architecture principles and TOGAF framework is a plus
• AWS Professional Certification is preferred. AWS Architecture Associate Certification or equivalent Azure Architecture Associate certification is a MUST
• CISSP or any other security certification is a plus
• Expertise in managing Enterprise Data platforms including Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Data marts is required
• Experience with SAS and R technologies is a major plus
• Experience with real-time and near real-time streaming data platforms is a huge plus
• Expertise in relational, semi-structured and unstructured databases is required
• Ability with Python or Java programming is a huge plus
• Experience with complex full stack applications and practices for solutions including API, - Micro-Services, Streaming Data Platforms etc. in large Enterprise Data organizations is a huge plus
• Skilled in supporting, controlling, monitoring, and management of large, complex, and sometimes geographically dispersed IT infrastructure and applications to optimize IT service delivery.