Cloud Architect

Role Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Seattle, WA ( Hybrid 3X)

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Interview: Web-Ex

The Architect partners with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs. The Enterprise Payments and Enterprise Fraud Protection teams support our Global Payment and Fraud systems and vendors.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the business/functional architecture and strategy for solutions in a manner consistent with our Technology’s enterprise architecture, applying common frameworks and re-usable components
• Help ensure the operational platforms and associated interfacing data and systems have been properly architected from and end-to-end perspective to meet the functional and non-functional needs of the business
• Work closely with other domain architects (DevOps, CICD, Mobile, POS, Digital, db, and other integrated systems) and development teams to support and guide solution implementations and acts as an advisor for technical resources on projects
• Assist the estimation of dev and QA efforts ensuring proper understanding of implementation scope, as well as adherence to best practices and methodical delivery
• Work directly with Business Analysts to define and refine technical requirements for future work
• Ensure as-requested functionality gets translated into as-designed solutions within the context of timeline, resources, org structure and quality
• Take ownership of bringing conceptual design down to a level of detail that can be physically implemented. Ensuring all required details and documentations are in the right place on Jira and confluence.
• Develop and maintain current and future-state architecture models
• Stay abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Partner with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs.
• Conduct code reviews alongside QA and developers to ensure adherence to specs, design solutions with other architects for system integrations
• Collaborate with DevOps and infra teams for backend setup,
• Participate in technology reviews and conduct as-built audit documentation, and work with ops readiness teams to design system continuity and support.
• Advise Mobile Developers on best practices and Architecture usage
• Coordinate Mobile Application Release Processes
• Advise and Monitor Resource usages and costs (AWS)

Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 Years of Architecture Experience
• Strong experience building in-house apps.
• While proficiency in Cloud architecture is not required, the experience building architecture for Apps with a supporting Cloud architecture is.
• Understanding and experience with payment service providers, payment processors and the supporting fraud systems and vendors
• Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal.
• Excellent listening and facilitation skills; the ability to sense organizational vibrations.
• Coaching and mentoring skills, especially influencing others to move toward a common goal or vision.
• Entrepreneurship and resourcefulness – an initiative-taker.
• Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement.
• Must be a collaborator and able to work with and through others.