AWS Solution Architect

ROLE: - AWS Solution Architect LOCATION: - Raleigh, NC or Foster City, CA DURATION: - Long term contract Principal Responsibilities Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects and support development Drive holistic solutions for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud, and cloud data warehouse Contribute to the cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc. Key Qualifications: Bachelors' Degree and a minimum of 10 years of professional IT experience Proven experience in successfully building and defending solution architecture with different levels of technical partners -Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, etc. Technical Qualifications: Required cloud competencies: AWS Certified Solution Architect Experience in architecting data warehouse solutions for 10 years Strong experience (8 years) implementing Cloud and infrastructure components for AWS (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud architectures and designs Knowledge of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc /Databricks etc. Ability to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer -e.g. stream processing, messaging, search, etc. Knowledge of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc. Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including: Data layers and purpose Serverless compute Processing run time -ETL vs Spark run time, etc. Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption, and certificates Ability to recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategy Metadata and data catalogs Ability to compare and contrast across technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerations Experience Optimizations including increasing Operational efficiencies on AWS while reducing overall DevOps costs Can clearly articulate Enterprise Standards & Operational Governance mechanisms that can be built-in for each layer of AWS Cloud data and analytics (Ingestion, Transformation, Consumption, Governance, Business touchpoints) Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure, and security standards Technical knowledge on EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, Glue Security architecture design Create Architectural standards and policy documents to socialize and align cross-functional teams Help delivery team to create business friendly touchpoints/UI/Experience with the new AWS platform Good knowledge and experience in Lifesciences (Commercial, Managed Markets domains). Excellent communication skills Expertise in preparing presentations, executive readouts