Cloud Solutions Architect

Level Description

47 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts practices and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

Job Description

The cloud architect is responsible for the cloud computing initiatives within an organization and for directing the architectural aspects of a cloud brokering team across all aspects of IT and the business. Responsible for the planning and engineering of an organizations cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Implements and designs hardware and software. Familiar with standard concepts practices and procedures of cloud technology including Software as Service (SaaS) Platform as Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Additional job details and special considerations

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Cloud Solution Architect hereafter referred to as Worker who meets the general qualification of Cloud Solutions Architect and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission Social Services Applications team. The Cloud Solution Architect will provide strategic guidance in the development process make technical decisions regarding solutions and explain how they will impact the organization.

As part of HHSC IT Applications Social Services Applications initiatives the Cloud Solution Architect 2 will be responsible for:

Architect develop and reengineer applications that fully leverage the Cloud capabilities (preferably AWS)

Define and develop blueprints and roadmaps for building efficient and highperformance solutions in the cloud (preferably AWS)

Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software solutions.

Design and implement cloudnative solutions leveraging microservices architecture containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes).

Drive the adoption of cloudnative best practices for scalability resilience and maintainability.

Implement and advocate for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

Plan and engineer cloud computing infrastructure and applications.

Integrate applications with various third parties such as Federal agencies State agencies and private firms (For example CMS Federal Hub SSA MMIS EBT IRS DHS BCBS etc.)

Provide cloud architecture guidance for Security Identity/Access Management and Monitoring. Ensure compliance with HHS enterprise security configuration standards.

Provide cloud architecture guidance for applications across all layers User Interface Middleware integrations and data bases.

Provide cloud architecture guidance for batch processing applications.

Provide AWS operational guidance both internal to the team and for external operations teams

Define standard concepts practices and procedures for cloud technology including Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Lead and ensure HHSC best practices and methodologies are applied to the design deployment and operations in the cloud.

Participate in application modernization.

Investigate and provide feedback on new AWS services and solutions.

Provide technical oversight review and quality control throughout the life cycle of the implementation.

Other duties as assigned.

Education

Graduation from an accredited fouryear college or university with major course work in computer science computer information systems engineering or management information systems is preferred.

Certification

Cloud Solutions Architect Certification

Cloud Infrastructure Certifications

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

7

Required

Hands on experience in designing building and supporting cloudnative application solutions.

7

Required

Experience in combined roles of enterprise or technical architecture cloud platform development cloud strategy or IT strategy

7

Required

Experience in migration of applications from onpremise to cloud with enterprise architecture

7

Required

Experience in Application security architecture in Cloud/onprem environment

7

Required

Experience in implementation of cloudbased solutions leveraging AWS and demonstrate expertise in authentication and authorization using Okta SailPoint and/or similar technologies

7

Required

Experience in security policies implementing multifactor authentication enabling singlesignon (SSO) capabilities and securing APIs using gateway platform for multiple channels

7

Required

Experience in design and implementation of Single Page Applications (SPA) using Angular ReactJS and/or other similar frameworks/libraries

7

Required

Experience in developing cloudnative applications adhering to best practices for cloud platforms

7

Required

Experience in designing microservicesbased architectures. Decomposing monolithic applications into microservices

7

Required

Experience in developing microservices using Spring Spring Boot Spring Cloud JPA and/or Hibernate

7

Required

Handson development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server Authentication and Authorization Caching strategies

7

Required

Experience with IaaC automation and various CICD principles ability to apply this experience to manage cloud based infrastructure.

7

Required

Experience with middleware process orchestration and integrations using IBM BPM/BAW and/or similar technologies

7

Required

Experience with batch processing scheduling tools and file storage in cloud environment

7

Required

Experience in application integrations with external systems preferably with CMS IRS and/or other third parties

7

Required

Experience in designing applications for scalability and optimizing performance in cloud environment.

7

Required

Experience in implementing robust logging using tools like Splunk and Dynatrace in cloud environment

7

Required

Handson programming experience in the following languages: Java J2EE HTML5 JavaScript AJAX CSS3 Bootstrap SASS UI frameworks/libraries (preferably Angular) Spring Java Server Pages Servlet EJB JSON XML ES5/ES6 NPM Maven Business Process

7

Required

Experience in implementing Clientfacing applications with responsive design and development

7

Required

Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker Kubernetes EKS OpenShift)

7

Required

Handson experience participating in all phases of Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban

7

Required

Experience with messaging platforms using IBM MQ and/or similar technologies in cloud environment

7

Required

Experience in Testdriven development and test creation using frameworks such as Katalon Karma Jasmine Selenium

6

Preferred

Handson experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later and JBOSS

6

Preferred

Prior state eligibility systems experience either State of Texas or other states including CMS experience

4

Preferred

Handson development experience for mobile and tablet platforms

4

Preferred

Experience with business rules engine using IBM ODM and/or similar technologies

4

Preferred

Knowledge of APIs design and implementation.

4

Preferred

Knowledge of Monitoring tools

4

Preferred

Knowledge of common DevOps tools GitLab Jenkins and Container