Principal Architect

Hi

My name is Shelly Sharma and I am a Staffing Specialist at SDK Software Inc. I am reaching out to you on an exciting job opportunity with one of our clients.

Role: IT Principal Architect

Location: Remote

Job Duties/Responsibilities:
Establish technology strategy, architecture and plans for the project modernization effort.
Understands the organizational and project direction, goals and the technology eco system to determine how architecture frameworks should be implemented.
Interface with engineering and other cloud teams across the organization in order to establish and enforce best practices and standards as guardrails with manual and auto-remediation, for non-compliant cloud resources.
Provides direction on implementing feasible, cost-effective solutions to the overall Solution architecture using cloud services and products considering both functional and non-functional requirements.
Collaborates and coordinates with MAXIMUS IT security and infrastructure teams to develop strategies to fulfill security and performance requirements and assess effectiveness of the solutions.
Provides feature/functionality to enable cloud teams through self-service portals.
Performs and leads POC (proof of concept) development and recommendation to adopt to ever changing technology trends
Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field with more than 10 years of relevant experience or master's degree (Preferred) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field with more than 8 years of relevant experience.
At least 5 years of Software Engineering Management experience including architecting cloud solutions at an enterprise level.
Knowledge, experience and exhibits strong thought leadership in digital architecture domain and applications, in developing web services and emerging technologies such as micro services in cloud-based environments and virtualization.
Experience of building products & services in "As a Service" models (eg. SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and platforms (eg. AWS, Azure)
Development experience with programming/scripting languages: Java/JEE , C#/Net, JavaScript frameworks (NodeJS, Angular), Web Services
Experience with Agile/continuous integration/DevOps
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to influence peers and superiors (technical and business) the strategic direction of overall solution
Must be able to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment of competing and alternating priorities