Sr. Cloud Architect
The Hartford•Hartford, CT
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Hartford’s Data Analytics and AI Office (DAIO) – and Data Platform Services (DPS) Team is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect. The Hartford’s journey to Cloud is a period of immense change – it is a critical part of this role to foster a customer first mindset and focus on work that meets the most needs of Data and Analytics users across The Hartford. You should be passionate for innovating with new cloud and data platform technologies, designing physical architectures and engineering platform solutions with an emphasis on improving adoption and user experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- At least 6 or more years of solid, diverse work experience in cloud computing, data delivery applications, analytics or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- At least 3 years of experience providing architectural guidance and technical direction to developers, or platform administrators.
- At least 2 years of experience (or equivalent training/certification) in designing and implementing solutions in AWS and GCP Services.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, and perform major job responsibilities proficiently within 6-12 months
- Experience in building applications/platforms using agile scrum methodologies
- Strong analytical ability, problem analysis techniques, and broad knowledge of technology alternatives
- Strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with business and IT partners
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
- The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in designing and/or implementing data delivery solutions using Data Integration Tools (Informatica, Talend etc.) and/or Data Platforms (Oracle, Snowflake, S3, RDS etc.) or Data Management (Cataloging, Lineage, Quality, MDM etc.)
Responsibilities
- Analyze industry trends focused on cloud computing and data platform technologies.
- Part of a team of architects working across organizational boundaries advancing DAO technical capabilities.
- Translate these trends into actionable capabilities.
- Design and Engineer target state platform architectures with reusability in mind.
- Define strategy and roadmaps to guide transformation efforts.
- Create architecture patterns for Cloud Data ecosystems (including AWS Cloud, PySpark, Snowflake, Tableau and ThoughtSpot).
- Collaborate with internal customers to evaluate needs and provide architectural guidance in utilizing the right products & services for solutions in support of batch/streaming, real-time, near real-time integration/ELT, structuring data for analytic consumption, cloud migrations, and supporting AI.
- Build relationships with internal customers proactively identifying platform and technical needs supporting a business roadmap.
- Driving product evaluations, defining scoring criteria, and providing technical recommendations.
- This will be a HANDS-ON role building IaC and Cloud platforms to support POCs of new technologies.
- Incorporation of DevOps and DataOps practices into suggested solutions to drive increased automation.
- Driving technical road shows to improve adoption of services.
Benefits
- short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
