NOTE- THIS ROLE IS 100% REMOTE FOR THE TIME BEING FOR LOCAL RESOURCES TO THE STATE OF WASHINGTON OR CANDIDATES WILLING TO RELOCATE FOR THE PROJECT

Description:

About this team/role:

A core pillar of client’s technology Strategy is to provide strong and scalable foundations. Leveraging cloud, we create and manage platforms servicing our internal stakeholders with a customer-first mindset. We enable and empower teams to become self-sufficient, while providing guardrails to protect the organization. Our team embraces modern cloud infrastructure on multiple cloud platforms. This role will focus on our AWS cloud foundation, architecting solutions that streamline access and use of cloud resources, while keeping the organization protected from security threats and performance failures. The individual in this role remains hands-on and leads by example. The Sr Architect brings clarity to complexity and demonstrate smart ways to simplify. This role requires a leader and mentor, setting excellent examples for the local teams and the entire technology community.

The architecture group at our client is responsible for guiding the design and implementation of technical strategies that support every aspect of our rapidly scaling global business. You will work in a matrixed environment alongside peers in business, engineering, program, UX and strategy – among

other disciplines – to collaboratively develop and deliver industry leading technology solutions aligned to business goals and objectives. In addition to your primary team, project, or portfolio you will be supported by a diverse Architecture Community of Practice, which provides learning and governance resources to all architects and will help you build a strong and robust practice of leadership grounded in technical proficiency, innovative thinking, and empathy.

As a Senior Architect you support delivery teams in the development of 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.

Key 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.

• Communicate tradeoffs 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.

• Influence others through subject-matter expertise and well-documented research.

Required Skills & Experience:

• BS / BA in technology related discipline or relevant industry experience.

• Minimum 5 years of real-world experience developing, deploying, scaling, and maintaining software systems; most of this experience should come from working in and around cloud based services at enterprise scale.

• Relevant industry experience is preferred, with an emphasis on providing governance and enablement for customers in a shift-left environment.

• Deep hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and data components in Amazon AWS with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools. All infrastructure deployed and maintained through CI/CD pipelines.

• 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, etc.

• Deep familiarity with microservices and server less architectures, and ideally have seen them in operation at a global scale.

• Good understanding of well-architected framework and ability to promote best-practices and provide guidance to help engineers across the organization with cloud adoption.

• Identify and anticipate new tools and platform features which can be leveraged to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

• Design and document modern and efficient systems with good attention to detail.

Must Haves:

• Proven work ethic with utmost integrity

• Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement (goal–oriented)

• Entrepreneurial spirit and an egoless nature

• Self-motivated, passionate, empathetic, approachable

• Actively live and breathe the culture and lifestyle

• Outgoing, energetic, upbeat, and fun!

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

• Desire to excel and succeed

Skills:

Cloud, solution architecture, Aws, Architecture, Engineering, Automation, Infrastructure

Top Skills Details:

Cloud, solution architecture, AWS , Architecture

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Strong ability to influence, both within the team and outside of the team. Overall goal to continue to drive cloud adoption and build velocity. Someone who is able to come into the environment, assess the current state, make recommendations and drive the road map. Take initiative, not someone to sit back on their hands.

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.