AWS Cloud Architect

CARFAX•Columbia, MO

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Team CARFAX as an AWS Cloud Architect. Team CARFAX is looking for hands-on, system-level thinkers who understand the many tradeoffs of technology choices, engage with distributed teams and help architect and design cloud-based platforms and data migration strategies to be leveraged across many departmental development teams. The Tech Culture at CARFAX: Having a creative and innovative environment where our developers can collaborate, learn and grow is something CARFAX is passionate about. We have an entire floor dedicated to our techies, designed specifically to enable teams to dream big and produce the best. Along with creating and maintaining awesome software you’ll also be able to participate in our annual Hack-a-thon or take a break by kicking back and playing the latest game on x-box when you need to re-boot the mind. Oh, and do you happen to have a dog? CARFAX is dog-friendly and no day goes by where you don’t have the chance to visit with one of the visiting pups. We even provide the dog beds, bowls and of course, toys! At CARFAX, we believe in the power of teamwork and value in-person interactions so that we can collaborate and thrive together. This position will require 3 days per week in our Columbia, MO office subject to change with future business needs.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3 years of that designing & architecting web applications
Experience in architecting and migrating big data to AWS cost effectively, securely and reliably
Knowledge or hands-on experience in MongoDB, Hadoop and AWS databases – RDS/Aurora, DocumentDB and DynamoDB
Expertise in security best practices for data at rest and in transit in AWS, cloud security best practices and a DevSecOps mindset.
Hands-on experience with AWS product offerings (e.g. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Hands-on experience migrating legacy, non-cloud applications and date to AWS including AWS data migration tooling, products and services.
Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool such as Jenkins or GitLab - be a firm believer in "automate everything"
Knowledgeable of ETL and ELT architecture and patterns and best practices for large-scale performance.
Knowledge of AWS pricing and cost estimations
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.
Experience building web applications across diverse technologies (Java, Javascript, golang, etc.)
Understand and advise teams in the design of common software and data architectural patterns
Ability to facilitate technical discussions, PoC technical solutions and plan a technology roadmap
Extensive experience in aligning application development with business needs
Have a broad set of technology skills ingrained into DevSecOps
Enthusiastic and motivated to apply AI to development and operations
Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems
Documentation and teaching mindset - Help others!
Communicate - Be vocal! We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is needed and valued!
Have a Self-Driven attitude - ability to quickly come up to speed with different technologies on an ongoing basis
Exhibit technical acumen - Be flexible! We love to change it up by using different technologies and need you to be open to new and different technologies!
Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.

Nice To Haves

AWS Solution Architect – Professional certification is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Providing technical leadership to the data ingest development teams
Analyze system requirements and workflow analysis, prepare design and architectural specifications
Assist in the architectural design of migrating from legacy systems
Ensure uniform enterprise-wide application design standards are maintained
Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams and other stakeholders
Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications, data storage and processes
Continuously analyze and evaluate our systems, products and process for potential improvements
Communicate across development teams to understand pain points and places where improvements can be beneficial
Educate business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use of AWS products and services