IT Architect (WebSphere Application Server,AWS GovCloud solutions,DevSecOps)

Company Description

Arthur Grand Technologies (www.arthurgrand.com) is in the business of providing staffing and technology consulting services. We have doubled our revenue year over year for the past 5 years. This speaks to the long-lasting relationship and customer satisfaction that we have built in this short span of time. Our company is managed by a team of professionals who worked for big 5 consulting firms for 20+ years. 

We are a minority owned staff augmentation and technology consulting company
To keep our valued employees, we need to keep them engaged in challenging, interesting work, offer market-relevant benefits and provide continued opportunities for professional growth.

Job Description

Arthur Grand Technologies is currently seeking a highly motivated of IT Architect for one of our clients.

Position: IT Architect (AWS GovCloud solutions)

Location: Remote

Duration:Full Time Permanent

Statement of Work:

This is a platform for electronically filing returns with the CLIENT. It provides SOA based web services that filers use to submit returns and provides web applications for CLIENT users to work with the returns. It validates filed returns, determines their disposition, and interfaces with other CLIENT systems for downstream processing of the returns. 

Task Description: 

Provide architecture direction and support for the modernization of the System, including collaboration with the team and CLIENT stakeholders to provide direction for moving to containers, the Cloud and other target environments. Drive development of architecture artifacts and maintain documentation in accordance with CLIENT document templates. Make recommendations for increasing DevSecOps maturity.

Primary Duties:

• Develop and extend the architecture. This includes developing architecture artifacts and presenting them to the team and CLIENT stakeholders – estimated 35%
• Provide recommendations/architectural options and solutions for migrating to microservices, containers and the Cloud – estimated 35%
• Maintain and/or create contractual deliverables in accordance with CLIENT templates – estimated 10%
• Identify opportunities for new business with the CLIENT – estimated 10%
• Provide LoE estimates for Impact Assessments and VROMs – estimated 5%
• Provide recommendations for implementing DevSecOps practices – estimated 5%

Required Skills/Level of Experience:

• Experience in developing, in collaboration with stakeholders, including customers, partners, project teams, and vendors, architectures for large, complex programs - 10+ years
• Strong customer communication skills, both oral and written – 10+ years
• Experience in leading teams of architects and/or developers – 5+ years
• Experience modernizing complex enterprise applications, including Java applications, for the Cloud – 4+ years
• Experience modernizing complex enterprise applications, leveraging microservices running in containers - 4+ years
• Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift – 4+ years
• Experience with building complex AW S GovCloud solutions– 4+ years
• Experience developing solutions leveraging Event Driven Architecture patterns – 4+ years
• Experience with information security for large, highly sensitive Java applications – 4+ years
• Experience maintaining requirements and traceability against business and application requirements for large, complex applications – 4+ years
• Experience with the Linux platform – 4+ years
• Experience with CM tools, such as IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) and Git SCM – 4+ years
• Experience with middleware products, including JBoss EAP, WebSphere Application Server, AMQ, Kafka and IBM MQ - 3+ years
• Experience in developing DevSecOps solutions on complex projects – 2+ years 

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience with database modeling tools, especially erwin Data Modeler
• Experience with developing monitoring solutions
• Experience with CMMI Level 3 Process Areas
• Experience with Azure cloud for government and Google cloud for government
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with IaC tools such as Puppet/Chef/Ansible
• Experience with AppDynamics
• Active AWS Solution Architect Certification

Thanks,

Afrah Faiza

Arthur Grand Technologies Inc

Arthur Grand Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (including disability/vets)

Additional Information

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