Senior Applications Architect

The Applications Architect (AA) is the functional expert for an application, a defined set of applications or a portfolio of related applications.

We are looking to hire an experienced AWS application architect

ONLY APPLY IF YOU ARE ABLE TO BE ONSITE DAY 1. THIS POSITION REQURES YOU TO WORK ONSITE A MINNIMUM OF 2 DAYS PER WEEK. NO FULL REMOTE OPTION. THE EXPECTATION IS THAT YOU LIVE/WORK IN THE DES MOINES METRO DURING ASSIGNMENT..

Our client committed to providing re-employment services for job seekers. We are looking to hire an experienced AWS application architect for our Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Modernization Project. This individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. The project aims to modernize client's Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry leading architecture and frameworks, with the goal of providing better service to both the agency staff and the end-users while positioning the agency for future technological improvements. This individual will provide technical leadership in architecting, implementing, and operationalizing AWS cloud hosting zones. The focus will be on security, full-stack automation, monitoring, and developer experience. You will be developer advocate for Cloud capabilities to influence and work across diverse teams to design and implement easy to use hybrid cloud environments. You will partner with Development, and Infrastructure teams with the goal of architecting the applications and how they leverage infrastructure services in cloud environments.

Requirements

Extensive experience in cloud architecture planning, estimating, application migration and cloud governance

Proven skills in cloud-native development

Use configuration management and tooling to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards

Containerize and orchestrate container images effectively to meet performance requirements

Experience in Java, Spring frameworks, SQL, Oracle, SOAP and REST web services

Experience in microservices and SOA development

Experience in establishing coding practices, code review standards and security protocols

Experience in Okta integration through SAML and/or JWT

Strong understanding of AWS well architected frameworks in cloud production environments and apply those principles while designing a solution.

Good understanding of AWS network and security engineering principles

Great communication skills and the ability to lead and work collaboratively in a team environment

Knowledge and experience of Agile practices

AWS Professional Solutions Architect certification is a plus

Required/Desired Skills Skill Required /Desired Amount of Experience Extensive experience is architecting web application, event driven systems and microservices Required 8 Years Design, estimate, implementation and governance of AWS Cloud architecture Required 8 Years Strong experience in AWS services like AWS EC2, ALB, RDS, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Api Gateway, AWS IAM etc. Required 8 Years Cloud-native development and Serverless technologies Required 8 Years Application migration to AWS Required 5 Years Docker and Container orchestration technologies Required 8 Years SOA and Microservices development Required 15 Years Java, Jakarta EE, JSON, XML, Hibernate/OpenJPA, SOAP and REST web services Required 15 Years Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch Required 15 Years SQL, PL/SQL Required 15 Years Okta, SAML, JWT Required 5 Years CI/CD pipeline and tools Required 5 Years Establish coding practices, code review standards and security protocols Required 15 Years