Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Solutions Architect to join our team at Creative Financial Staffing. As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance architecture that meets business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and high-quality data solutions on AWS.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, and best practices.
• Ensure security, integrity, and consistency of critical user and business data.
• Conduct system performance analysis, tuning, and capacity planning.
• Define migration strategies for moving legacy systems to AWS-based solutions.
• Provide training and mentorship to other team members on AWS solutions, data lake management, and data warehousing concepts.
• Implement custom code solutions in places of the data pipelines where the tooling has gaps.
• Stay abreast of new AWS services and other technologies relevant to data architectures.
• Design, implement, and manage security measures to protect AWS-based cloud systems.
• Monitor and analyze security events and incidents and respond to threats in a timely manner.
• Conduct security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests.
• Develop and enforce security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Work with DevOps and development teams to integrate security into the SDLC as well as CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) controls.
• Stay current with emerging security threats and technologies and provide recommendations for improvement.

Requirements:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques, including data lifecycles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
• Solid experience in designing and implementing data lakes and data warehouse solutions.
• Strong understanding of advanced AWS services related to computing, storage, database, networking, analytics, and security.
• Must have extensive Terraform experience, including managing entire clouds in IaC.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Fargate, S3, RDS, DMS, Glue, Athena, EMR, SNS/SQS/EventBridge, Databricks.
• Expert in IAM, multi-account clouds, Control Tower & AWS security.
• Proficiency in SQL (MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake) and experience with scripting languages (PySpark, Python, Bash).
• Experience managing CI/CD practices, tools, related environments and pipelines.
• Hands on development experience with software development using Python or TypeScript to create custom code solutions for customized data pipelines.
• Hands on experience with NoSQL (DocumentDB/MongoDB).
• Solid understanding of Data Lakes, Delta Lakes, Data Warehouse, Data Mart and able to contribute to the design and implementation of analytic pipelines and platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or related experience on cloud platforms.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certificate preferred.