Address
Form of workJob Description
Client: State of TX
Job ID: 529400684R
Respond by : 12/28/23
Rate: DOE
Type: Contract
Please respond with resume and 3 references preferably supervisor (name, title, company, email, phone number)
Preference will be given to candidates who meet all preferred skills and have public sector experience
Background Check will be performed if a candidate is selected for placement and will have to be passed'
Job Description
The Cloud Data Architect will provide strategic guidance in the development process, make technical decisions regarding solutions and explain how they will impact the organization
As part of IT Applications Social Services Applications initiatives, the Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for:
- Provide services in relation to data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
- Develop migration strategies from on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
- Develop, update and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
- Design and implement Data Architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
- Ensure data integrity, security, and performance for all databases
- Design and implement data integration solutions to enable seamless dataflow across systems
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to implement cloud-based data integration solutions
- Perform database optimization, capacity planning and performance monitoring
- Provide expertise with data migration and data archival in AWS cloud
- Provide expertise on AWS Cloud database infrastructure
- Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
- Perform database tuning, benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
- Leads and ensures best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud.
- Supporting DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is preferred.
Certification:
- Cloud Solutions Architect Certification
- Cloud Infrastructure Certifications
- CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years
Required/Preferred
Experience
8
Required
Experience with data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data s ecurity
8
Required
Experience developing migration strategies for o n-premises databases to cloud-native database t echnologies
8
Required
Experience developing, updating and maintainin g conceptual, logical, and physical data models t o support changing business requirements
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing data arc hitectures that enable efficient data storage, retri eval and analysis
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing high av ailability and disaster recovery solutions to mini mize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
8
Required
Experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL in H A deployments and Expertise in data storage
8
Required
Experience migrating Oracle RAC/Exadata infra structure to a public cloud environment
8
Required
Experience designing and implementing effectiv e and efficient data models
8
Required
Experience with database performance tuning b enchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system opti mization
8
Required
Hands-on experience with Agile development, Pr ogram management/project management experi ence for large cloud migrations
8
Required
Hands on experience with database services like RDS, RDS Proxy and other Data Services.
8
Required
Experience with replication of databases and oth er types of data.
8
Required
Experience transforming data into cloud native st orage and other formats.
8
Required
Experience using standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including S oftware as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Servi ce (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
8
Required
Hands-on experience with adjacent technology a reas including Security, Identity / Access Manag ement and Monitoring.
6
Preferred
Hands-on experience as a platform engineer for Cloud platform
6
Preferred
Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
6
Preferred
Hands-on development experience for mobile an d tablet platforms
6
Preferred
Experience with APIs design and implementatio n.
6
Preferred
Experience with Web services and RESTful API s
6
Preferred
Experience with Monitoring tools
6
Preferred
Experience with DevOps tools GitLab, Jenkins, a nd Container
- TERMS OF SERVICE
Services are expected to start 02/01/2024 and are expected to complete by 08/31/2024. Total estimated hours per Candidate shall not exceed 2000 hours. This service may be amended, renewed, and/or extended providing both parties agree to do so in writing.
