Senior Cloud Architect
| Company | Hartford Financial Services |
|---|---|
| Location | Hartford, CT, USA |
| Salary | $136000 – $204000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- At least 6 or more years of solid, diverse work experience in cloud computing, data delivery applications, analytics or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- At least 3 years of experience providing architectural guidance and technical direction to developers, or platform administrators
- At least 2 years of experience (or equivalent training/certification) in designing and implementing solutions in AWS Services (S3, IAM, EC2, EMR, SQS, RDS, CloudFormation etc.), CICD tools (GIT, Jenkins, Nexus, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy etc) and/or Terraform, Ansible
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, and perform major job responsibilities proficiently within 6-12 months
- Experience in building applications/platforms using agile scrum methodologies
- Strong analytical ability, problem analysis techniques, and broad knowledge of technology alternatives
- Strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with business and IT partners
Responsibilities
- Analyze industry trends focused on cloud computing and data platform technologies
- Be part of a team of architects working across organizational boundaries advancing DAO technical capabilities
- Translate industry trends into actionable capabilities
- Develop and maintain both current and target state platform architectures with reusability in mind
- Define strategy and roadmaps to guide transformation efforts
- Create architecture patterns for Cloud Data ecosystems (including AWS Cloud, PySpark, Snowflake, Tableau and ThoughtSpot)
- Collaborate with internal customers to evaluate needs and provide architectural guidance in utilizing the right products & services for solutions in support of batch/streaming, real-time, near real-time integration/ELT, structuring data for analytic consumption, cloud migrations, and supporting AI
- Build relationships with internal customers proactively identifying platform and technical needs supporting a business roadmap
- Drive product evaluations, define scoring criteria, and provide technical recommendations
- Build IaC and Cloud platforms to support POCs of new technologies
- Incorporate DevOps and DataOps practices into suggested solutions to drive increased automation
- Drive technical road shows to improve adoption of services
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience (or equivalent training/certification) in designing and/or implementing data delivery solutions using Data Integration Tools (Informatica, Talend etc.) and/or Data Platforms (Oracle, Snowflake, S3, RDS etc.) or Data Management (Cataloging, Lineage, Quality, MDM etc.)