Technical Lead (AWS SME)

CANDIDATE MUST BE ARIZONA RESIDENTS. NON-LOCALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

W2 CONTRACT ONLY.

• Collaborating closely with ADOR and State teams as well as technology vendors to ensure the successful delivery of the program objectives.
• Crafting the vision for execution by the technology work streams including all facets from product solution structure & design, cloud infrastructure, integration, data management, development, quality assurance, and deployment.
• Developing technical landscape encompassing software product development as well as operations.
• Providing technical leadership, guidance, and expertise throughout all phases of the program, from planning and design to implementation and maintenance.
• Exhibiting a mix of technical and business acumen, driving architectural and design decisions in concert with ADOR and vendor teams to ensure the development, testing, implementation, and operability of ADOR s cloud-native tax software product being delivered by a strategic partner.
• Taking responsibility of quality and delivery of all technical deliverables as a part of providing engineering leadership across the program s technical work streams.

• Leadership: Provide strategic technical leadership and direction to the program team, ensuring alignment with program goals, timelines, and technical standards.
• Architecture and Design: Collaborate with vendor partners and ADOR IT teams to shape the technical architecture, design patterns, and best practices for the RevHub tax software implementation in Amazon AWS.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with technology vendors, ensuring clear communication, adherence to contractual agreements, conformance to architecture and design principles, and timely delivery of services and solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal stakeholders, including business leaders, developers, testers, and operations teams, to ensure seamless integration and deployment of the RevHub tax software solution.
• Security & Compliance: Coordinate with security architect and CISO to ensure security and compliance requirements are robustly defined and embedded in design, development, testing and implementation.
• Technical Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert on Amazon AWS services, SDLC methodologies and tool chains, the technical stack on which the tax product is being built, and emerging technologies relevant to the program.
• Quality Assurance: Establish testing and quality assurance processes and standards to ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and operability of the tax software solution.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance program efficiency as well as ensuring that non-functional product requirements (software scalability, performance, security, testability, observability, operability, etc.) are identified, defined, documented, and embedded into the product.
• DevSecOps: Drive rapid adoption and embedding of automation and DevSecOps practices in the SDLC by the engineering and product teams with a focus on high levels of CI/CD automation.
• Develop and maintain software architecture technical specifications, architecture artifacts, technical designs and guide software development in conformance with architecture specifications and guidelines established as a part of the solution architecture. Assist leadership, consulting teams, and project management teams to understand and deploy the software solutions, through technical briefings and on-site meetings.

• Proven experience (8+ years) leading large-scale IT programs or software product development initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including but not limited to EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, and VPC.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in software architecture, software engineering, data engineering, and system integration techniques.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively, with agility.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, or similar credentials are a plus.