Staff Application Architect Jobs

This is a remote position that could be based anywhere in the United States or Canada.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Work closely with Cloud product owners to understand, analyze product requirements and provide feedback.
Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.
Architecture design and review of large scale microservices and data pipelines.
Implement and enhance support tools for monitoring and acting on data pipeline issues and interpret trends and patterns.
Technical leadership of software design in meeting requirements of service stability, reliability, scalability, and security.
Guiding technical discussions within engineer group and making technical recommendations.
Design review and code review with peer engineers.
Guiding testing architecture for large scale data ingestion and transformations.
Customer facing engineering role in debugging and resolving field issues.
Designing scalable technology solutions that adjust to cyclical business patterns.
Keep abreast of latest trends and shifts within the Technology and Digital space.
Work effectively in areas of ambiguity and create solutions to complex problems.
Identify, communicate and connect with key decision-makers and use strong influential skills while partnering with cross-functional teams to drive and implement change.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree in related field preferred
Minimum of 10 years progressive technology leadership experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture.
6+ years leading solution design of several medium to large sized projects of moderate complexity, providing a baseline set of design artifacts for use by developers and engineers during construction.
6+ years of experience working in either Java or Python.
3+ years of experience in designing data streaming and event-based data solutions using Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark or
similar frameworks.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices based architecture.
Ability to create and maintain architectural models and technical design documentation, which includes current and future state process flows, applications/database objects, specifications that detail proposed database and/or data integration implementations.
Experience architecting data platforms, data operating models, data collection, dataflow management, master data management, data quality, and security. Experience designing and developing scalable data pipelines, automated workflows/hand-offs, and API integrations.
Knowledge and experience designing solutions with cloud-native AWS Cloud services (EC2, RDS etc.) as well as using containerization frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes or similar.
Working experience with the cloud-based NoSQL like Dynamo, Elasticsearch or similar, relational DBs, cache frameworks like Redis or similar, objects stores, datalakes and warehouses like Redshift or similar.
Knowledge of traditional ETL/ELT techniques as well as cloud-based data pipelines (e.g., AWS DMS, AWS Glue, Kafka).
History of introducing new/emerging technology to disrupt business models.
Proven success creating business-enabling technology roadmaps.
Leads the development of architectural design patterns.
AWS Certified Solution Architect.
The Open Group TOGAF 9 certification is a plus.
Telecom experience is a plus.
Location:
Remote-based position located in the United States or Canada.
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