Location: Remote

Duration: Full Time

Job Purpose:

Lead Amazon Web Service (AWS) solution architecture and design effort required to plan, architect, and design a complex, highly available, and scalable data pipeline using AWS technologies across multiple Availability Zones within the AWS GovCloud.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will support project planning efforts, by helping to (1) kick-off the work and confirm the work charter, vision, roles, and responsibilities, (2) define project meeting, communication, and reporting protocols, (3) develop the Project Management Plan and related logs and registers, (4) collect and review data source and other documents relevant to the scope of work, and (5) establish the initial product backlog.
• You will lead efforts to architect, document, and validate the data pipeline design. As part of this effort, you will (1) identify and analyze source systems and necessary data integrations, (2) identify data and ingestion characteristics (e.g., source, volume, format, velocity, schedule), (3) develop a data dictionary for data that must be extracted, transformed and loaded, (4) define source-to-target data maps, (5) define backlog features for needed data transformations, (6) confirm non-functional requirements (NFRs), such as availability, scalability, security, and performance, that must be supported by the architecture, (7)  design and confirm the proposed architecture and incorporate changes required to support non-functional requirements, and (8) define the solution’s concept of operations by describing data ingest, orchestration, transformation, and consumption journeys and cloud service offering configurations.
• You will lead efforts to perform a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the Bank and use PDR feedback to finalize the high-level design of data pipeline. To secure approval for the high-level design, you shall perform a Final Design Review (FDR), incorporating client feedback, as needed.
• The data pipeline will be part of a High Value Asset (HVA) that is rated as a FISMA “High Impact” system. For this reason, you will lead efforts to design and architect the System using an AWS GovCloud infrastructure that employs cloud service offerings (CSO) that are FedRAMP authorized at the “High” Impact Level.
• You will support efforts to make certain design and architecture deliverables comply with FISMA “High Impact” compliance level requirements and support HVA Control Overlays (Version 2.0).
• As part of a team, you will support efforts to work with the client to identify security risks and conduct a cyber security review of the data pipeline architecture. You will help provide architecture recommendations for mitigating identified security vulnerabilities based on their experience applying industry best practices and the standards endorsed by the client.
• You will support efforts to identify key security controls and security counter measures that are needed to reduce risk and comply with the client’s security policies. Through these efforts, you shall lead efforts to architect a solution that is Secure By Design.

Required Skills:

• Proven ability to lead large-scale AWS cloud architecture and design efforts for complex, highly available, and scalable data pipelines. This experience includes the following skills: data analysis and architecture, data ingest and integration design, object storage and object lifecycle management design, extract-transform-load design, relational database design, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnet design, security design, and high availability and scalable cloud workload design.
• Familiarity and ability to produce architecture and design deliverables that conform with Well Architected design principals is required.

Required Technologies:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, including Amazon S3, Amazon RDS SQL Server, Amazon Glue, AWS Lambda, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Notification Service, AWS Step Functions, AWS EventBridge, AWS PrivateLink, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, and related.

Required Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent post high school education and/or work-related experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other Information Technology related field.
• AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is required.