Title: Technical Architect – Cloud Systems
Location: Northern Virginia, hybrid (3 days onsite/2 days offsite) Local candidates only
Duration: 6 month contract, renewable
Summary: Leads AWS architectural design, implementing DevOps practices for automated deployment and monitoring; drives the transition to microservices architecture, ensuring optimal performance and seamless integration; conducts assessments for cost optimization, security, and performance tuning; mentors teams in cloud-native best practices; fosters partnerships with external technology environments; enforces cross-platform security and audit controls; contributes to strategic planning, crafting implementable business plans and managing complex technology projects; evaluates and refines the success of technology initiatives, creating presentations to support transformative initiatives within the school division.
Responsibilities And Minimum Qualifications
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust AWS architectural designs.
- Implements DevOps practices to automate deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud
- infrastructure and applications.
- Leads the application of Service Oriented Architecture principles to migrate monolithic application stacks to microservices architecture, ensuring seamless
integration and optimal performance.
- Conducts assessments, provide recommendations, and implement best practices for cost
- optimization, security, and performance tuning.
- Mentors and guides development teams in adopting best practices for cloud-native development and microservices architecture.
- Assesses school division technology environment, needs, and expertise to effectively partner with external technology environments.
- Establishes and maintains communication with business units and third-party vendors to monitor changing information technology environments.
- Conceptualizes, defines, develops, tests, and deploys needed enterprise technology solutions, products, and services that may be marketed.
- Collaborates with IT security and audit to enforce strict cross-platform security and audit controls.
- Partners with other IT functions to evaluate, prioritize, and resolve new issues and problem
- scenarios.
- Creates, updates, and maintains strategic technology plans.
- Captures, qualifies, and quantifies internal ideas, expertise, and initiatives.
- Builds business and financial models for major new technology initiatives.
- Refines models into implementable business plans.
- Makes business plans operational.
- Identifies and establishes potential business resources and partners and matches qualified
- partners with school division partners, expertise, and initiatives.
- Manages complex technology projects across organizations.
- Crafts acceptable policies and procedures.
- Evaluates the success of technology initiatives and business partnering.
- Creates and delivers presentations.
- Performs other related duties as required or assigned.
- Any combination of education and experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, instructional technology, marketing, or business
management.
- Six (6) years of progressively more responsible experience related to creating and managing new or emerging technology solutions, products, and services, two (2)
years of which shall have
- required independent judgment, and some of which shall include AWS administration.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience in transforming monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures with a focus on scalability and performance optimization.
- Must have one or more of the following certifications:
- AWS - Solutions Architect
- AWS - Security Specialty
- AWS - Application Architect
- AWS - Cloud Engineer
- Knowledge of AWS architecture, DevOps practices, Service Oriented architecture,
- containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless technologies.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and configuration management tools(e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
- Skill in automating deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Skill in managing complex technology projects across organizations.
- Skill in building both front end and back end of a website with proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, or Node.js.
- Skill in designing and implementing cloud solutions on AWS.
- Ability to lead the migration from monolithic applications to microservices architecture, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
- Ability to apply best practices for cost optimization, security, and performance tuning in cloud environments.
- Ability to mentor development teams in cloud-native best practices and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to contribute to strategic technology planning, translating business requirements into implementable plans.
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of K12 cloud architecture and tools.
- Knowledge of other cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data migration strategies in a cloud environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.