Web Architect (AWS Environment) Only W2 candidates

Responsibilities:

Required Technical & Leadership Skill Sets  BS degree or higher in Computer Science with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience is required.  Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively by working with technical product owners and delivery teams and ensuring follow through  Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, where and when needed, to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization  Experience in governance procedures, policies and guidelines to ensure that project initiatives comply with the overall architecture direction.  Influence the development teams to adopt best practices with an emphasis to reduce tech debt and reduce total cost of ownership.  Experience in design, deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management, and customer facing web applications within an AWS environment.  Experience in evaluating vendors, products, cloud and emerging industry technology trends  Hands on experience with the following or equivalent required: Ansible, Git/Gerrit, Jenkins, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus, Atlassian JIRA, and Confluence.  Expert knowledge of build, release, and configuration management processes, including branch-based development and deployment workflows to support parallel feature development and continuous integration.  Possess expert knowledge in Performance, Scalability, Security, Enterprise System Architecture, and Engineering best practices.  Proven track record of successfully architecting large-scale high-available systems using agile DevOps based software development life cycle.  Hands on collaboration with Agile development teams - pair frequently with engineers on code development and understand the practical constraints, challenges and limitations of architecture decisions.  Experience in introducing tools and techniques to identify various types of issues in production using logs and other metrics derived from enterprise monitoring applications.  Outstanding ability to provide guidance, insight and day-to-day support for agile development teams. Remain abreast of industry trends and best practices and communicate these trends and practices to the engineering organization. Personal Skills:  Strong experience working with multi-site development teams.  Strong Communication skills (verbal and written) with an ability to work in a highly collaborative, multi-country/time zone environment.  Good organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks.  Proactive personality with a proven track record of following through and delivering on responsibilities.  Highly adaptive and capable of being an individual contributor and working as part of an extended team.