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Company

Empower · 1 day ago

AWS Solutions Architect

Nationwide Remote

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$110K/yr - $159K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Help Sr. Architects and peers define and execute on the business aligned IT strategy and vision.

Develop, document, and provide input into the technology roadmap for Empower Retirement and Great West Financial.

Create Reference Architectures that demonstrate an understanding of technology components and the relationships between them.

Adopt best practices for microservices to deliver solutions.

Maintain a high level of skill in various application deployment and workload architectures, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

Ensure that IT understands how to leverage various integration protocols and technologies, such as REST & resource-oriented design, OData and API Gateways.

Participate in the evaluation of new applications, technical options, challenge the status quo, create solid business cases, and influence direction while establishing partnerships with key constituencies.

Implement best practices, standards & guidance, then subsequently provide coaching of technology team members.

Make leadership recommendations regarding strategic architectural considerations related to process design and process orchestration.

Collaborate with other business and technology teams on architecture and design issues.

Respond to evolving and changing security conditions. Implement and recommend security guidelines.

Provide thought-leadership, advocacy, articulation, assurance and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture discipline.

Provide solution, guidance, and implementation assistance within Full stack development teams.

Have experience working with high throughput high concurrency distributed systems to meet latency in single digit milli seconds with 4 9s (99.99) availability.

Have worked with modern testing tools like Gatling or similar to test peak performance of APIs.

Good understanding of horizontal elastic scaling on cloud for compute and data stores including caching technologies like Redis or Memcache.

Proficient with performance benchmarking and fine tuning of spring boot applications and applying strategic thinking to help improve system performance optimal throughput.

Qualification

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Solution ArchitectureJavaAWSMicroservicesRESTful ArchitecturesCloud ArchitecturesDevOpsPerformance BenchmarkingData ModelingCI/CD PipelinesGitMachine LearningEthical AIBusiness Process ManagementFinancial Industry Expertise

Required

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (Information Systems, Mathematics, Software Engineering)

5+ years of experience in the development and delivery of software systems.

3+ years of experience creating solution architectures and strategies across multiple architecture domains (business, application, data, integration, infrastructure and security).

3+ years of experience developing in the following technologies: Java (Spring, SpringBoot), Web Services (JSON/XML), RESTful architectures, AWS API Gateway, Lambda, NodeJS, Python.

Solid experience with one or more of the following technology disciplines: SOA & Microservices design, Cloud Architectures, Advanced Programming, Modern Integration Methods (API Gateway/Web Services, Messaging & RESTful architectures), NoSQL

Client-side Development experience in Web and/or Mobile technologies.

Good understanding of front-end and web frameworks such as React and Angular and how they integrate with APIs and backend services.

Experienced in modern deployment models using Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

Proficient with source code version control such as GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket

Working knowledge of addressing architectural cross cutting concerns and their tradeoffs, including topics such as caching, monitoring, operational surround, high availability, security, etc.

Demonstrates competency applying architecture frameworks and development methods.

Strong knowledge of data modeling, security patterns and integration methods.

Experience with DevOps processes and tools.

Understanding of business process analysis and business process management (BPM).

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Demonstrates continuous learning of new technologies.

Self-motivated individual that thrives in a team environment.

Preferred

Financial industry expertise preferred (Investments, Asset Management, etc.).

Understanding of machine learning algorithms, deep learning frameworks, and AI model architectures.

Understanding of ethical AI principles and practices.

Experience implementing AI transparency and explainability techniques.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance

Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup

Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year

Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans

Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year

Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year

Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)

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