AWS Application Architect
Dallas, TX

Job Description

AWS Application Architect

About Hitachi Ltd:

Hitachi Ltd. is a global company with activities in multiple industries. Hitachi has over a hundred years of industrial and technology innovation, employs over 320,000 people and generates more than $95 billion of revenue per year.

About Hitachi Consulting Corporation:

Hitachi Consulting (HCC) is the Consulting, IT and Solutions services business of Hitachi Ltd. We work with clients across the world from all industry sectors to design, build and operate technology solutions. We have particular strengths in the domains of 'Digital', Internet of Things', 'Analytics' and ERP and provide a range of supporting services (industry expertise, project management, process design, change management) required to achieve success. Frequently, we will leverage our relationship with the rest of Hitachi to bring innovative products and services into our solutions for clients. We will also work with clients to define outcome-based measures as part of our role in helping clients implement and achieve benefits.

Position Overview:

This resource will be a key contributor to our Strategic Technology Solutions practice and will have the below responsibilities:

* Lead & own all technical aspects of system development including the integration, extension and upgrade of existing systems.


* Strategically shape the technical roadmap definition, establish engineering best practices and provide a managerial perspective and direction.


* Provide in-depth technical and hands-on leadership in the design and development of comprehensive, business oriented solutions.


* Evaluate and select the right technologies, rapidly develop prototypes and oversee the technical aspects of systems development and operations.


* Manage the development process to ensure that design standards are being followed, application requirements are fully implemented, technologies are efficiently and correctly implemented and a high level of maintainability and extensibility is achieved.


* Manage the execution and support multiple concurrent projects and ensure deadlines are met.


* Lead team meetings, stand-ups and architecture/design discussion.


* Serve as a mentor and coach for leads and developers, and either oversee and/or perform design code reviews of the technical work and coding.


* Continually be seeking to identify and recommend areas of improvement in our solutions, technology stacks, SDLC and development processes and take full managerial ownership to make them better.


* Perform other related duties as assigned



Required Qualifications:

* Demonstrated success in actively contributing to large consulting projects.
* Effectively communicates to diverse technical and nontechnical audiences, including developers, technical leads, peer architects, delivery owners, business owners, senior leaders, etc.
* Experience with Cloud, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a service; micro-services architecture and architecture models is required.
* Experience in full life-cycle of software development or methodology using Agile Scrum/Kanban etc; requirements analysis, design, development, testing and implementation
* Guide global agile teams as they perform feature level design, development, testing, and performance analysis.
* Architect end-to-end solutions for multi layered applications on a variety of technology stacks
* Strong understanding of DevOps tools/process/methodologies
* 3 Years in Architecture experience on AWS Cloud Platform - VPC, S3, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, Dynamo DB
* 2 Years in programs leveraging automation, continuous build and continuous deployment practices using tools such as Jenkins, VSTS, Cucumber, JMeter etc.
* 2 Years in container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes
* 1 Years in automating infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, Terraform
* 1 Years in building end to end products using Serverless Architectures (AWS Lambda)
* 1 year of experience in designing and scaling cloud-based applications (Amazon Web Services).
* AWS Certification is a plus.

Optional Qualifications:

* 3 Years of advanced knowledge in NodeJS, React & J2EE technologies
* Experience with Content Management Platforms (Adobe EM, Sitecore etc.)
* Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) methodology and leveraging the appropriate tools.

Travel:

Typical travel requires consultants to be at the client location Monday-Thursday

Location:

Consulting Office Home base will be Dallas, TX.

Hitachi Consulting offers excellent benefits and career growth to all employees!

Hitachi Consulting Is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

What can Hitachi Consulting offer you?

Hitachi Consulting is about community and having fun at work. We compete with the tier one consulting firms while having a close-knit, team-oriented, growth-oriented culture. To preserve this unique culture our people actively participate in bi-monthly social events as well as local volunteering, and community event activities throughout the year. Hitachi consultants enjoy the growth that comes from keeping their skills on exciting projects within a wide range of industries.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Hitachi, please send the nature of request and contact information accommodations@hitachiconsulting.com. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.