Cloud-Native Architect

Vizient is seeking a highly skilled Cloud-Native Architect to lead multiple software product teams in ensuring consistent application of standard design and development practices. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud-native architecture design and implementation of distributed, fault-tolerant enterprise applications in laaS, Paas, or Saas solutions with an emphasis on Azure.

• Lead evaluation and selection of technologies.
• Help build proof of concepts (POCs) to incubate new technologies.
• Ensure industry, regulatory, and security standards and practices are followed.
• Advise business stakeholders on software design, translating requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
• Design overall solution architecture for apps, data, security, infrastructure, and business continuity.
• Work within the engineering team to realize architectural goals and with peers to ensure that consistent architecture is maintained across the enterprise.
• Identify new frameworks, tools, and libraries to benefit the productivity of engineering teams.
• Maintain a repository of reference architectures that can be used by engineering teams.
• Advocate for architectural best practices and mentor engineering teams in the adoption of new practices or solutions.
• Lead Best Practices on Databricks Development with a particular focus on the AI/ML space.

• Relevant degree preferred. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field a plus.
• 7 or more years experience in cloud-native architecture design and implementation of distributed, fault-tolerant enterprise applications in laaS, Paas, or Saas solutions with an emphasis on Azure.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying large-scale data applications using emerging cloud, big data, SQL and NoSQL solutions.
• Strong working knowledge of various data modeling techniques.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale Databricks environments.
• Proven experience with ML Engineering in a Databrick ecosystem.
• Experience with Parquet storage and parallel data processing.
• Strong knowledge of batch and real-time data flows and compute.
• Experience building data pipelines - using a variety of different technologies like Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python & Spark.
• Experience in architecting analytical solutions and visualization tools.
• Experience with IaC frameworks like Terraform, Pulumi or ARM.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Automation.
• Good understanding of cloud PaaS services like security, monitoring, logging, scaling, caching, etc.
• Experience with large-data processing (multi-terabyte) architectures.
• Experience in application migration from on-premise to the cloud using rearchitecting and re-platforming approach preferred.

Vizient is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. The estimated hiring range for this role is $135,200.00 to $223,200.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan. Please view our benefits here.