Cloud Solution Architect, Digital Foundry

About this role

You will solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment. You should be comfortable in an engineering leadership capacity and have deep technology expertise and a collaborative style that brings others into the decision-making process without slowing down progress. This position will significantly impact the tech agenda within the organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across a global organization.

• Supports all phases of product engineering, from conception through execution and support for full development life cycles in collaboration with multifunctional leaders, stakeholders, contributors, and customers
• Drives development principles, best practices, quality standards, and activities within engineering production to minimize/mitigate risks, issues, and defects of platform service offerings, such that teams may appropriately characterize, manage, and remediate
• Aligns with Product and other key stakeholders to help scope projects, define requirements, perform gap analysis, refine functional requirements, and manage engineering team’s technical execution and commitments using Agile/Scrum best practices
• Conceptualizes solutions and generates secure design requirements, for related feature and function development, implement required modules and solutions, and fosters new product development and innovation
• Ensure security activities such as threat modeling, security assurance testing, cyber risk assessment, security reviews and threat vulnerability assessment for all offerings are part of solutions and the product engineering
• Conduct architecture reviews, cybersecurity reviews, and code reviews
• Provides timely and expert support to resolve difficult problems and issues
• Provides thought leadership, advisement, mentorship, training, and engagement
• Provides audit, analysis, and review support for certification, standards, governance, process, infrastructure, deployment and all collaborative mission areas
• Provides critical support as required for all major Product Security missions, including Secure Development, Operations, Commercialization, and Innovation

• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years of hands‑on, enterprise level, or professional software development
• 4+ years of hands‑on cloud system design and solution architecture
• 5+ years of system design and architecture experience

• Bachelor’s degree or above in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering, or comparable professional experience at a minimum
• A complete understanding of software development life cycle, from customer needs to product release
• 3+ years of engineering/development team leadership experience (Team Lead, Eng. Mgr, or similar)
• 2+ years of distributed engineering team leadership experience
• Expertise and domain knowledge in developing, maintaining reusable software services, infrastructure for promoting reuse of services/ components/ libraries
• Hands‑on experience developing modern, cloud‑native, IaC software technologies to deliver industrial, enterprise‑grade platform products and services
• Expertise in developing and deploying serverless AWS solutions
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, cloud native patterns, and cloud computing capabilities especially as offered by AWS
• Significant technical expertise in Cloud Computing technologies, scripting languages, integrating 3rd party monitoring tools, encryption tools and best practices, and forensics
• Implementation experience with enterprise security solutions
• Working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms
• Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management
• Strong skills and experience in Analytics Cloud migration and implementation, AWS services related to analytics, AI/ML, CI/CD
• Experience developing highly scalable applications using service-oriented, microservice, and/or RESTful
• Experience in messaging platforms, protocols, and technologies
• Experience in managing and optimization Big Data / Hadoop clusters
• Design for failover, high availability, MTTR, MTTF and MTBF
• Experience in designing and implementation of automated backup and restoration of application/web servers/databases/data lakes