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Position: Cloud Application Architect

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Duration: Long term contract

Job Description:

Skills and attributes for success

• Expert understanding of solution architecture with ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards
• Ability to communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of groups and individuals effectively and comprehensively
• Understanding of business and organizational strategy
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability and other "capabilities" of a system

To qualify for the role you must have

• Led the Solution Architecture workstream of a complex and medium/large scale implementation; being the bridge between the business and engineering; working closely with engineering to drive the
• implementation of solution architecture.
• Led and governed a team of solution architects (if applying for Lead Solution Architect role) which works in multiple projects/products.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
• Expert-level skills in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform/hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, SAP Cloud Platform or OpenStack)
• Ability to navigate the EY organization to facilitate work beyond the immediate technical team
• Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies
• Excellent project management, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills
• A broad understanding of EY Technology, including service offerings, technical standards and policies, technical and business strategies as well as organizational structure
• Strong collaboration abilities willingness to share ideas, documentation and leading practices
• Conceptual and analytical skills ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies

Ideally, you'll also have

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics
• 15+ years overall IT industry experience, with 5+ years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Achieved one or more of the typical Solution Architecture certifications e.g. Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, and SAP etc.

Hand-on experience with:

• Claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.
• Architecting Mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
• Multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management
• Project financial management, solution plan development and product cost estimation
• Supporting peer teams and their responsibilities; such as infrastructure, operations, engineering, info-security
• Configuration management and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools
• Relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Neo4j etc.
• Data management and data governance technologies
• AI and Machine Learning tools such as Azure ML etc
• Project and/or product management
• Architecting mobile applications that are either independent applications or supplementary addons (to intranet or extranet)

Knowledge of:

• Cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• One or more programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc
• Visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau and understanding of analytics tools including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Analytics, Data Lake Analytics