Architect
Harrisburg, PA
Contracted
Experienced
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: Onsite
Contract Length: 4 months
Position Overview:
The Azure Cloud Solutions Architect will lead the modernization of the client’s IT infrastructure by developing and implementing a comprehensive cloud strategy. This role is responsible for designing scalable, cost-effective solutions, guiding infrastructure migration to Azure, and ensuring alignment with business goals, industry advancements, and enterprise architecture standards.
Duties:
Position Type: Onsite
Contract Length: 4 months
Position Overview:
The Azure Cloud Solutions Architect will lead the modernization of the client’s IT infrastructure by developing and implementing a comprehensive cloud strategy. This role is responsible for designing scalable, cost-effective solutions, guiding infrastructure migration to Azure, and ensuring alignment with business goals, industry advancements, and enterprise architecture standards.
Duties:
- Manage assignments and track progress against agreed upon timelines.
- Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage work efforts, coordinating with internal teams.
- Act as a partner consultant to the project team and be responsible to assess task quality and provide ongoing feedback to project members.
- Collaborate across the IT organization to define and apply enterprise level standards in solution architecture.
- Participate in status reviews, process reviews, deliverable reviews, and quality assurance work product reviews with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Participate in business and technical requirements gathering.
- Perform research on potential solutions and provide recommendations.
- Develop and implement solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
- Participate in testing of implemented solution(s).
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
- Give presentations for the IT and project stakeholder groups, as well as other offices and agencies involved with this project.
- Develops and maintains meticulous technical and procedural documentation.
- Ensure project compliance
- Conduct training and transfer of knowledge sessions for system and code maintenance.
- Complete weekly project status updates, if necessary.
- Provide weekly personal status reporting by COB Friday submitted on SharePoint.
- Utilize a SharePoint site for project and operational documentation; review existing documentation.
- 12 years of software development experience
- 5 years of experience working as a Software Development Lead
- 3 years of experience as a Designer or Architect where leadership capabilities have been demonstrated on multiple mission critical systems
- Four year college degree in computer science or related field
- Advanced experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.
- Researching, designing, and developing public and private cloud solutions, including impacts required for hybrid cloud computing
- Significant knowledge of software engineering, software architecture, data architecture, systems architecture, and data management
- Experience with CI/CD toolsets including version control systems (Git), development and maintenance of pipelines (Azure DevOps)
- Experience with migrating on-premises application systems to a cloud environment
- Analyzing and translating business requirements and use cases into optimized designs and developing sound solutions.
- Experience with data lakes, data bricks, and Azure database services.
- Experience with SQL, .Net, Python, and other programming languages.
- Ability to balance work between multiple projects and possess good organizational skills, with minimal or no direct supervision
- Ability to work and communicate collaboratively and effectively with colleagues, and as a member of a team.
- Ability to present complex technical concepts and data to a varied audience effective
- Microsoft Azure certification
- Experience working in the public sector
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