Cloud Application Architect, Application Migration, Modernization and Management (AM3)

- Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience as technical specialist in design and architecture
- Experience in database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis)
- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions
- Experience in software development with object oriented language
- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
- Experience in external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management
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As a Senior Cloud Application Architect, you will be engaged in complex projects with autonomy and discretion, often involving multiple Amazon and customer teams.

On a daily basis, you will work with customers and partners, guiding and supporting them through planning, prioritization and delivery of complex transformation initiatives, while collaborating with relevant Sales and Service Teams. You will help with designing and delivering of solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale and performance, and in turn, enable breakthrough innovations. You will create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms.

Do you have experience delivering IT solutions in agile environment - plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery?

Come build the future with us.
Basic Qualifications

Multiple years of large-scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Node.js, .NET, Python, PHP or Ruby
Hands-on experience with software engineering best practices (code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and deployment, release and change management)
Proven experience in designing and building highly available, resilient, large-scale distributed systems
Proven track record in leading innovation initiatives and best practices across multiple development teams or customers
Exposure to Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
Previous experiences as Software / Solution Architect, Lead Architect or similar role
Experience in architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform
Experience in designing and modernizing applications using containers, serverless technologies and event-driven architectures
Prior consulting experience working directly with customers and partners

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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