Cloud Architect

Position Title: IA-DOM-IWD-AA2-Senior Applications Architect (725608)

Client: State of Iowa

Type: Des Moines, IA 50266

End Date: 12/27/2024 (With Possible extension to next fiscal year)

Short Description:

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

Complete Description:

• We are looking to hire an experienced AWS application architect for our Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Modernization Project.
• State agency 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 IWD's UI 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 years of experience

Candidate years of Experience

Short Description

Extensive experience is architecting web application, event driven systems and microservices

Required

8

Design, estimate, implementation and governance of AWS Cloud architecture

Required

8

Strong experience in AWS services like AWS EC2, ALB, RDS, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Api Gateway, AWS IAM etc.

Required

8

Cloud-native development and Serverless technologies

Required

8

Application migration to AWS

Required

5

Docker and Container orchestration technologies

Required

8

SOA and Microservices development

Required

15

Java, Jakarta EE, JSON, XML, Hibernate/OpenJPA, SOAP and REST web services

Required

15

Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch

Required

15

SQL, PL/SQL

Required

15

Okta, SAML, JWT

Required

5

CI/CD pipeline and tools

Required

5

Establish coding practices, code review standards and security protocols

Required

15