Cloud Architect
Falls Church, VA

Job Description

Since 1975, MAXIMUS has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs. MAXIMUS delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs. With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, MAXIMUS is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com. Job Description SummaryThe Cloud Architect is an accomplished technical leader, proactive customer-focused advocate, a team player with solid understanding of cloud computing and technology systems, as well as experience designing and transferring applications to the cloud. Should have a positive attitude and excellent communication skills to effectively share the knowledge. Preferred experience within the healthcare industry. The candidate must have hands-on experience with architecting cloud solutions and migrating on premise computing to cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a good foundation of the AWS offerings. Knowledge on other cloud providers like Google and Azure will be an advantage. The candidate must demonstrate a willingness to learn new cutting edge technologies and overcome technical challenges in a fast paced environment. The candidate will provide design, and implementation expertise to a cross-functional software development team. The Cloud Architect will play a key role in managing both client cloud instances as well as in-house instance. This project will be located in Falls Church, VA with occasional travel to project site as neededProject Job Duties:•Provide guidance and technical oversight, brainstorm solutions, conduct architecture and design reviews to support internal teams as well as end clients. •Present technical solutions/guidance, governance and participate in architecture and design reviews. •Architect, design and lead the efforts in securing the cloud solutions•Create a well-informed cloud strategy and regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.•Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.•Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.•Evaluate, ensure and recommend appropriate IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offerings are leveraged •Support the Agency's implementation of its strategic objectives as well as guide the efforts of the MAXIMUS Federal team. •Support client using Agile and DevSecOps Methodologies.•Assist in Providing technical oversight of various client projectsRequirements:•Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university is required•Experience in multiple cloud providers - AWS, Google, Azure preferred•Knowledge and hands on experience in leveraging AWS components like EC2 instances, load balancers, API Gateway, SMS•Support, perform and troubleshoot deployment issues. .•Review the existing documentation and document technical specifications.•Perform maintenance on existing software products and contribute knowledge of business applications.•Contribute as necessary to the development of all project artifacts throughout the system development life cycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Responsible for the architectural integrity of the program and maintaining the enterprise vision of the solution from a technical and business perspective.- Ensure that opportunities are identified and is a liaison between the functional and business groups to ensure that these opportunities are realized.- Responsible for the business/technical solution and guiding what should be done within the program to ensure alignment with the enterprise strategy.- Provide technical design, prototype development, and support to program management in the initiation, design, development, implementation, maintenance and management of service- based enterprise architecture.- Play a key role of migrating three enterprise applications into a consolidated application which leverages DevOps, cloud computing, and Data Lake / big data technologies.- Ensure adherence to the standards and solution.- Lead enterprise architecture analysis, evaluation, design, integration, documentation, and development.- Serve as technical liaison between program management and development stakeholders.- Make key architectural decisions required of the enterprise technical platform and supporting technologies.- Evaluate projects from a business and technical perspective, ensuring that planned development methodologies are appropriate and in line to support enterprise goals.- Partner with leaders to provide enterprise solutions that are calculable, adaptable and in synchronization with evolving business requirements.- Contribute to technical requirements and input to work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.- Ensure adherence to quality standards and technical reviews for enterprise architecture deliverables.- Work to align enterprise IT strategy with business goals and objectives and the enterprise strategy.- Actively support IT governance as it relates to alignment to the business, evaluation of technology trends, enterprise architecture models, alignment of IT strategy initiatives, enterprise architecture guiding principles and standards.- Analyze technology industry and market trends to determine potential impact to enterprise services.Minimum Requirements:- Typically requires an advanced technical degree and a minimum of 12 years in progressively responsible positions.- Individual contributor who oversees large, technically complex projects.- Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues.- Position is recognized as a subject matter expert within a particular discipline.- Some barriers to entry exist at this level (Sr Executive approval).- Knowledgeable of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within discipline.

EEO Statement: Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies MAXIMUS deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. MAXIMUS is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. MAXIMUS provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.