AWS Solutions Architect

Principal Responsibilities:

• Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects and support development.
• Drive holistic solutions for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization.
• Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud, and cloud data warehouse.
• Contribute to the cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.

Technical Qualifications:

• Required cloud competencies:
• AWS Certified Solution Architect
• Experience in architecting data warehouse solutions for 10+ years.
• Strong experience (8+ years) implementing Cloud and infrastructure components for AWS (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud architectures and designs.
• Knowledge of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc/Databricks etc.
• Ability to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer -e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etc.
• Knowledge of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.
• Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including:
• Data layers and purpose
• Serverless compute
• Processing run time -ETL vs Spark run time, etc.
• Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption, and certificates
• Ability to recommend migration tools and design data migration strategy.
• Metadata and data catalogs
• Ability to compare technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerations.
• Experience Optimizations including increasing Operational efficiencies on AWS while reducing overall DevOps costs.
• Can clearly articulate Enterprise Standards & Operational Governance mechanisms that can be built-in for each layer of AWS Cloud data and analytics (Ingestion, Transformation, Consumption, Governance, Business touchpoints)
• Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure, and security standards
• Technical knowledge on EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, Glue
• Security architecture design
• Create Architectural standards and policy documents to socialize and align cross-functional teams.
• Help delivery team to create business friendly touchpoints/UI/Experience with the new AWS platform.
• Good knowledge and experience in Lifesciences (Commercial, Managed Markets domains).
• Excellent communication skills
• Expertise in preparing presentations, executive readouts.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelors' Degree and a minimum of 10+ years of professional IT experience
• Proven experience in successfully building and defending solution architecture with different levels of technical partners -Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, etc.