We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Cloud Solution Architect role.
Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
As part of HHSC IT Applications – Social Services Applications initiatives, the Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for:
? Provide services in relation to data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
? Develop migration strategies from on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
? Develop, update and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
? Design and implement data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
? Ensure data integrity, security, and performance for all databases
? Design and implement data integration solutions to enable seamless dataflow across systems
? Collaborate with cross functional teams to implement cloud-based data integration solutions
? Perform database optimization, capacity planning and performance monitoring
? Provide expertise with data migration and data archival in AWS cloud
? Provide expertise on AWS Cloud database infrastructure
? Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
? Perform database tuning, benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
? Leads and ensures HHSC best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud.
? Supporting DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools.
? Other duties as assigned.
Education
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.
Certification:
- Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
- Cloud Infrastructure Certifications
Skills(Required):
- Experience with data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
- Experience developing migration strategies for on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
- Experience developing, updating and maintaining conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
- Experience designing and implementing data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
- Experience designing and implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
- Experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL in HA deployments and Expertise in data storage
- Experience migrating Oracle RAC/Exadata infrastructure to a public cloud environment
- Experience designing and implementing effective and efficient data models
- Experience with database performance tuning benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
- Hands-on experience with Agile development, Program management/project management experience for large cloud migrations
- Hands on experience with database services like RDS, RDS Proxy and other Data Services.
- Experience with replication of databases and other types of data.
- Experience transforming data into cloud native storage and other formats.
- Experience using standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Hands-on experience with adjacent technology areas including Security, Identity / Access Management and Monitoring.
Skills(Preferred):
- Hands-on experience as a platform engineer for Cloud platform
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
- Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms
- Experience with APIs design and implementation.
- Experience with Web services and RESTful APIs
- Experience with Monitoring tools
- Experience with DevOps tools GitLab, Jenkins, and Container