Cloud Architect

10 Nov 2024

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

The Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve's National IT organization-a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.

When you join our team, you'll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better. Bring your passion and we'll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It's all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!

About the Opportunity

Our National IT FedNow organization has an immediate opening for a Senior Cloud Architect (SP1), reporting to an Assistant Vice President of Engineering.

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will be a technical expert accountable and responsible for the technical direction of the team, and integration with the businesses. You will develop repeatable patterns and ensure consistency in the solution design and adoption process and drive technical decisions to improve enterprise cloud services from both underlying cloud infrastructure hosting platform and application perspectives.

What You Will Do:
  • Lead the development of the overall cloud architecture. Areas of focus include organizational structure, identity and access management, networking, security, and integrations
  • Cloud Architect is hands on with various cloud technologies and able to lead conversations about cloud adoption
  • Develop standards, frameworks, patterns, and processes to benefit existing customers
  • Engages with key stakeholders, industry experts, and technical peers to understand technology and business requirements, industry trends and the broader FRS architecture landscape. Using this information, develops and maintains the technical architecture direction and roadmap for cloud capabilities.
  • Maintains a strong understanding of the current cloud platform and proactively leads the analysis of the technology environment to detect deficiencies, gaps, and opportunities. Works with leadership to prioritize, initiate and implement technology efforts aimed at addressing these opportunities.
  • Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
  • Provide guidance as it relates to cloud automation and CI/CD capabilities
  • Act as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in your domain of expertise.
  • Ensure compliance of solutions to architectural standards.
  • Work with Security Architecture and Information Security to ensure Integrity of solutions meet Enterprise standards and policies.

Qualifications:
  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience with industry leading cloud service providers
  • 10 years of experience acting as a technical lead or architect across multiple technical domains and architectures. Successful candidate should have deep knowledge in one of these areas and experience in at least 2 other areas: Security, infrastructure, network, data, or business architecture.
  • Good understanding of agile principles and development methodologies including DevOps practices
  • Hand-on experience with industry leading container platforms
  • Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
  • Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to tailor the presentation to various audiences and technical expertise
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Cloud Certifications are a plus
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience/Master's Degree may be preferred

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you'll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:
  • Great medical benefits
  • Pension and 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid time off
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee resource networks
  • Paid volunteer leave
  • Flexible work options
  • Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:
  • A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
  • Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
  • Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.
  • The hiring range of the SP1 is $153,900- $192,400 annually.
  • For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.
  • Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by November 12, 2021.

Full Time / Part Time Full time

Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology

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The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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