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Do NOT send resumes of Data Engineers, SREs, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers.
This is a senior level Architect role.
Location: Atlanta, GA ( 3 days/week onsite required)
Duration: 6+ months
Job Description:
Role Purpose
The Sr IT Architect is a seasoned member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the
Company s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The Sr IT Architect helps set
the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operate within. In addition, the Sr IT Architect
helps develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the
Company s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.
Key Accountabilities
Lead the design of cloud-native, scalable, and cost-effective architectures on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
Provide expertise in designing solutions for data processing, storage, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence on Google Cloud Platform.
Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, integrating Google Cloud Platform services with on-premises and other cloud platforms.
Define, document, and evangelize the data integration patterns between Google Cloud Platform the eco-
system (AWS, Salesforce, SaaS, PaaS, and On-Prem)
Implement security best practices for Google Cloud Platform environments, including identity and access
management (IAM), encryption, and data protection.
Design and enforce security controls such as network isolation, firewalls, and VPNs to safeguard sensitive data and applications.
Create and maintain detailed architectural artifacts (e.g., architecture diagrams, design documents, data models) to visualize, communicate, and document the cloud solutions and architectures using tools like Lucidchart to create and update diagrams that represent cloud architectures, data flows, security models, and integration points.
Document decision-making processes, trade-offs, and rationale behind architecture choices to support future scaling, optimization, and troubleshooting.
Develops a unified architecture that is scalable across the organization and ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.
Translates industry technology direction to business value and serves as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing new research and innovative approaches.
Accountable for the development of high-level business cases, with the ability to influence
senior leadership, business partners, architects and key stakeholders within the architecture
team and other functional areas on the adoption of technical solutions and drive the solution
to completion.
Research and evaluate, or provide direction to others researching and evaluating, new
technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.
Analyzes systems and processes from end to end, partnering with IT and business colleagues as appropriate.
Provides guidance and enterprisewide influence leading to solutions that are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.
Advice in decisions regarding strategic partnerships, vendor selection and acquisitions.
Education
Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of
education and work-related experience.
Experience
Typically, a minimum of 10-15+ years of progressive work related experience with
demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the
position.
Technical skills and Knowledge
Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities
and constraints of technologies supported.
Expert understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a
product family.
Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).
Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS9000, FDA, Six Sigma).
Required Skills: Middleware Focused:
o Java
o REST
o Enterprise Caching Architectures
o Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka
o Micro Service Architecture
o Public Facing APIs and API Gateways
o Enterprise Integration Patterns
o Data Transformation and ETL
Data Focused:
o Big Data
o Data Design Principles and Best Practices
o Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms
o Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions
o BI tools
o Google Cloud Platform Analytic Tools
o Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
o Forecast and Demand Planning Applications
o Master Data Management Applications Hot Skills
Cloud Focused:
o Google Cloud & Big Query
o Salesforce and Data Cloud
o AWS and cloud-native architectures
Data Focused:
o Hospitality Data
o Big Data
o Relational Data
o AI/ML
o Data Pipelines
o BI Tools & Reporting
Middleware Focused:
o Web Application
o Native Application
o Property Management System
o Kubernetes