Cloud Enterprise Architect

Cloud Enterprise Architect

The Opportunity:

To achieve an organization’s mission, leaders need strong team members who can create processes, communicate requirements, and develop innovative solutions throughout the execution of the mission. Whether completing an immediate task, recognizing a process gap, recommending a solution, or flexing to support an immerging requirement, our clients need a consultant who can help manage operations while managing responses to external inquiries in a timely manner. That is why we need you, an experienced Cloud Enterprise Architect who can develop and refine the agency’s cloud strategy in alignment with the mission.

As part of our team, you'll serve as a strategic technical consultant to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), helping conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. You’ll work with world-class scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems, and leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies in support of senior ARPA-H decision makers. You’ll maintain responsibility for producing and presenting findings and recommendations to a team of colleagues and clients on the feasibility and potential impact of future research programs, assisting with the management of current programs, and facilitating commercialization of successfully developed technologies. Serving as a Cloud Enterprise Architect, you’ll help clients develop stakeholder management strategies, establish new business processes, and complete research and analysis to determine viable solutions. You will be responsible for managing incoming requirements, facilitating engagements within offices and across the agency, and be readily available to shift your focus to fulfill emerging client requests. Your attention to detail, flexibility, communication skills, understanding of the client's mission, and problem-solving will enable the mission's success.

What You’ll Work On:

• Develop and refine the agency’s cloud strategy in alignment with the mission.

• Select appropriate cloud service models such as IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, and providers, considering factors like scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

• Design cloud-based architectures that are scalable, resilient, and secure, including defining cloud-native architectures, and leveraging cloud technologies such as microservices, containers, and serverless computing, to optimize performance and flexibility.

• Ensure cloud environments meet security and compliance requirements, particularly FISMA following NIST Risk Management Framework.

• Implement security best practices, identity and access management (IAM) policies, encryption mechanisms, and monitoring tools to safeguard data and resources.

• Lead the integration of existing systems and applications with cloud services, as well as plan and execute migration strategies to move workloads within the cloud, including assessing dependencies, designing migration paths, and minimizing disruption.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience with designing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based architectures using cloud-native technologies

• Experience with the Microsoft 365 platform, including transition to a new tenant

• Experience with developing and managing cloud strategies aligned with organizational goals

• Experience with leading integration and migration of existing systems to cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption, and interacting and communicating with senior-level executives, including SES or GS-15

• Experience with supporting cloud service models

• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

• Bachelor's degree

• Certified Solutions Architect, including Professional or AWS Microsoft, or GCP Certification

• Ability to obtain a Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), SAFe, DevOps, SysOps, AI/ML, or Network Architecture Certification within 30 days of start date

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with U.S. government health organizations

• Experience with low-code no-code, including Power Platform

• Ability to operate independently within a fast-paced, start-up environment

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities

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