Solution Architect

Solution Architect:
If you are a highly-motivated passionate AWS expert who is excited about leveraging your skills and strategic ideas to improve mission execution, this role is for you.

You should have at least 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud data engineering, and the ability to broaden your skillset into areas like automation, scripting, and containerization while developing critical systems for several of our internal clients.

Requirements:
· Bachelor’s and/or an Associate’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Business
· 6+ years of experience within the field of application/platform engineering or related technical work including business intelligence, analytics
· 4+ years of experience with AWS Senior Cloud Data Engineering, management, maintenance, or architecting, implementing best practices and industry standards
· 4+ years of experience with data warehousing platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or similar
· 4+ years of experience with DB technologies (e.g., SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Redis)
· 4+ years of experience with CI/CD tools, pipelines, and scripting for automation. (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline tools, Cloud formation and Terraform)

Specific Requirements:
· High degree of knowledge in IAM Roles and Policies
· Strong knowledge configuring AWS cloud monitoring and alerts for cloud resource availability
· Strong scripting experience using PowerShell and/or Python
· High degree of knowledge in PaaS and SaaS application performance
· Understand enterprise-level application architecture diagrams and IT security requirements
· Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change
· Experience designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business
    
Activities & Duties:
· Provides expert guidance to projects to ensure that their processes and deliverables
· Design and develops enterprise data solutions based on architecture and standards leveraging leading architecture practices and advanced data technologies
· Implement solutions for data migration, data delivery and ML pipelines
· Implement Identity Access Management Roles and policies
· Build resilient, reliable, performant and secure Data Platform and Applications
· Work closely with application development and data engineer teams on day-to-day tasks along with project planning and implementation
· Automate deployments of AWS services and BI Applications


Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: Chicago, IL 60606 - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)
Job Type: Contract  


Sterling Engineering / Staffing has a rich history of delivering top talent to our clients. We are a nationwide Staffing Firm with over 100 clients and work primarily with Fortune 1000 corporations.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.