Establish governance models, processes, best practices, and standards that enhance the security and operational effectiveness of the cloud ecosystem. Lead cost optimization and estimation discussions. Contribute to granular cost allocation, develop charge-back model and reporting, budgeting & forecasting cloud/SaaS spend, identify cloud resource inefficiencies. Provide guidance to architects, CCoE, CPE, software engineers and other IT areas using agile/SAFe methodology, with focus on continuous cloud solution delivery. Work with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Data Services, Cloud Platform Engineering, Cloud Center of Excellence, InfoSec, and partners (AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, other Service Integrators) etc. to transform, plan, align, define, review architecture, strategy, roadmaps and design artifacts.
Required Education, Certifications and Experience
Bachelor's Degree in computer or systems engineering related major
10 years Architecture experience related to transforming and modernizing enterprise data applications, creating architecture and design for high-volume, low-latency, and resilient cloud applications in AWS, Snowflake and DataBricks.
10 years Data warehousing experience
5 years AWS Architecture, design and build experience
5 years Hybrid and cloud-native data platform design and implementation experience
3 years Snowflake Architecture, Design and Development
2 years Databricks Platform Experience
experience architecting, integrating and designing data applications and systems using cloud based big data technologies including Snowflake, AWS EMR, AWS Kinesis, Spark/Pyspark, EC2, lambda, DMS, Sagemaker, ELB, AWS Glue/Glue Data Catalog, Athena, Lake formation, DataSync, EBS, S3, EMR, RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon MWAA, Route 53, EKS and other services related to cloud security.
Experience related to Databricks Data Processing, Delta Lake, Snowflake Data Warehousing, Data Sharing, Security, Analytics and Snowflake/AWS/Databricks integration
Experience with conducting detailed assessment of applications, workloads, and technology landscape for cloud suitability, and develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap.
Experience performing detailed analysis of application cross sections, map to cloud functions and enable application migration to the cloud.
Experience creating data/transition architectures that map to future state cloud strategy and solutions.
Experience defining and document cloud processes and standards, reference architectures and influence the adoption of these.
Experience defining and communicating application migration roadmap and gaining buy-in from across business and IT area leads.
Experience providing assessment of current state architecture, recommendation of future state architecture using cloud technologies and developing reusable technical reference models to promote cloud adoption.
Experience defining governance models, processes, best practices, and standards that promote the security and operational effectiveness of the cloud ecosystem.
Experience providing architecture leadership for large scale migration of existing data center hosted applications to the cloud.
Experience leading cost optimization and estimation discussions including usage analysis, Reserved Instance (RI) planning, technology infrastructure rightsizing, pricing models and buying strategies.
Experience with data lakes, lake house architecture, and delta lake
Experience applying cloud access security brokers (CASBs), common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID, SAML etc.)
Experience to build scalable, resilient - highly available and disaster recoverable application in AWS
Experience communicating project health and identify risks to project and program stakeholders, sponsors, and management
Experience resolving conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to management.
Experience with application delivery through DevSecOps and agile development processes leveraging CI/CD pipelines.
Skilled in driving Proof-of-Concepts and implementation, with hands-on involvement as SME, for new service items: build deployment automation pipelines, build automated next gen CI/CD pipelines partner with development teams, build and integrate new technologies and prevent cloud provider lock-in.
Understanding of cost models for cloud services and experience evaluating ROI of proposed cloud architectures.
Understanding of cloud security with focus on applying techniques for protecting sensitive (PHI/PII) data including encryption, masking, and tokenization.
Knowledge and experience with relevant healthcare legal and regulatory requirements, such as HITRUST, SOC-2, HIPAA Privacy & Security and other CMS regulations and guidelines.
Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud to provide thought leadership and mentor team to build necessary competency.
Must have high attention to detail, be well organized and be a self-starter.
Must be able to work with limited direct supervision.
Preferred Education, Certifications and Experience
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or Management (preferred).
Certifications
AWS Architecture Certification (preferred)
Snowflake Core Certification (preferred)
SAFe/Agile Framework (preferred)
Databricks (preferred)
People Management
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