Navigant Consulting - New York, NY

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Senior
New York, NY
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The AWS Senior Cloud Solutions Architect will be a pivotal technology planning and governance role with enterprise-level influence at Guidehouse. This position is integral in driving, maintaining, and improving the roadmap of the company's technology strategy and processes. As a leader, the architect will set the architectural direction for strategic technology projects, ensuring that proposed technical solutions align with the company's overall objectives. This role will collaborate with internal technology groups and serve as a strategic member to business and IT, internal innovation teams, and IT functional areas, helping them identify and leverage new opportunities while providing guidance to ensure solutions align with both business and IT strategies. In this role, the architect will drive enterprise architecture activities with a focus on business outcomes, build and evolve a business technology strategy, and develop IT strategies and roadmaps to drive investments in enterprise capabilities. The architect will establish application and technology portfolio management processes and tools to provide transparency and reduce technical debt. They will identify opportunities to digitize business processes and experiences in collaboration with internal innovation teams, maintain architecture governance, and develop technology standards and reference architecture. The architect will evaluate business, information, application, and technology views of the solutions, identifying risks and remaining knowledgeable about cloud technologies and hybrid cloud frameworks. The AWS Senior Cloud Solutions Architect will monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies, partner with business and technology leaders to translate business objectives into technological solutions, and define and develop audit and review checklists to ensure compliance with enterprise standards. They will also contribute to peer reviews, technical audits, and technology standards processes, collaborate with and mentor other enterprise engineers and junior architects, and perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Drive enterprise architecture activities with a 'business outcome' lens
  • Build and evolve a business technology strategy including the strategic roadmap for IT systems
  • Develop IT strategies and roadmaps to drive investments in enterprise capabilities
  • Establish application and technology portfolio management processes and tools to provide transparency and reduce technical debt
  • Identify opportunities to digitize business processes and experiences with internal innovation teams
  • Maintain architecture governance, technology standards processes, and reference architecture development
  • Evaluate business, information, application, and technology views of the solutions and identify risks
  • Remain knowledgeable on cloud technologies and hybrid cloud frameworks
  • Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to understand and translate business objectives into technological solutions
  • Define and develop audit and review checklists ensuring compliance to enterprise standards
  • Define and improve architecture processes and artifacts
  • Contribute to peer reviews, technical audits, and technology standards processes
  • Collaborate with and mentor other enterprise engineers and junior architects
  • Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience OR 12 years of experience can be substituted for degree
  • Ability to obtain a National Security Clearance or a U.S. Federal Government Public Trust
  • Certified AWS Solution Architect-Professional
  • Demonstrated ability to learn and document new technologies/solutions
  • Hands-on experience designing & deploying cloud architecture on AWS in an enterprise environment
  • Experience in other technical roles such as systems engineer or infrastructure analyst
  • Significant years of hands-on experience delivering solutions running in an enterprise cloud
  • Evaluate Cloud Application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning in AWS
  • Experience working with microservices or data processing workloads with tools such as Docker or Kubernetes
  • Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
  • Strong hands-on experience with writing Terraform code to deploy AWS resources including the creation and use of Terraform modules
  • Familiarity with AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), CloudFormation (CF) & Terraform templates, Windows & Linux environments, and the AWS Billing & Management Consoles
  • Deploying and provisioning in a production environment AWS resources including IaaS: EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, IAM, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, VPC, Route53, Subnets, Routing Tables, Internet Gateways, certificates, autoscaling groups, PaaS services: EKS, ECR, ECS, Fargate, Code Deploy, Code Commit, and other SaaS services
  • Strong knowledge of data management concepts, network engineering concepts and architectures
  • Strong knowledge of security controls and basic security architecture patterns and practices
  • Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex technology solutions
  • Ability to think big and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
  • Must be able to work East Coast US business hours

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with ServiceNow is a plus
  • Experience working in an ITIL environment
  • Experience working with C-Suite level executives

Benefits

  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Basic Life & Supplemental Life
  • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Student Loan PayDown
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
  • Skills Development & Certifications
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
  • Mobility Stipend
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