Lead Cloud Architect

Strategic Staffing Solutions is searching for a

• Accelerate the company’s ability to Build & Migrate applications and workloads to the Cloud
• Work with a team of Digital Solution architects & CoP s/CoE s within the company
• Architect and design C4 artifacts throughout the entire Digital space including Cloud, Web, Mobile, AI, API, SaaS, and COTS products
• Create technical designs (Activity Diagrams/Sequence Diagrams, API service specifications and message models) through a close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Application Product teams, Infrastructure teams and other support teams across enterprise
• Provide technical leadership and guidance during development, testing and delivery of features
• Experience leading and influencing individuals at multiple levels, encouraging the establishment of high performing and self-sustaining cross-functional teams
• Review business and non-functional requirements to capture and understand project/product requirements
• Challenge the status quo to breakthrough legacy thought processes, and drives the company’s technology forward to match best-in-class Cloud technology organizations
• Ability to be flexible and support any aspect of the Digital organization on demand, including product, development, delivery
• Knowledge of industry-leading application trends, and help development teams incorporate modern approaches into Digital application roadmaps
• Provide expertise and feedback into Agile Operating Model, ensuring that methodology enables all aspects of our technology strategy
• Ability to influence and guide product solutions with technology best practices
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions and recommendations to senior level management
• Will drive the strategic direction for Digital application development and delivery to the Cloud.
• This includes working with a small team of Solution architects, designing technology approaches that modernize our application stack and enabling our Agile teams to deliver with quality and speed.

• 4+ years technology architecture and/or leadership experience
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and leading web applications
• Leading Product teams to the Cloud (Terraform, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, EC2, EKS, EMR)
• Experience designing and delivering applications using AWS, Azure, SaaS
• Architecting complex Big Data/AI/ML Analytics product migrations to Cloud (AWS)
• Prior success as an engineering working on challenging problems and world class digital solutions
• Experience using Terraform (CI/CD) to ensure high quality and repeatable deliverables of software products, including delivery of infrastructure as code
• Architecting Enterprise-grade, highly available Products with Real-Time Streaming (Kafka)
• Proven ability to multi-task and contribute on several concurrent projects and initiatives
• Experience managing and coaching other IT Architects and Lead Engineers as well as peers
• Significant experience on multiple SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)
• Experience with externalizing APIs for 3rd party consumption
• BS / MS / PhD in in Computer Science, Math or related engineering fields or equivalent practical experience

• Set the bar high for what a company should do
• Create jobs
• Offer people an opportunity to succeed and change their station in life
• Improve the communities where we live and work through volunteering and charitable giving

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Vacation Package
• Life & Disability Insurance Plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement