Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Awareness of architecture governance and tooling valuable
- 3+ years of commercial cloud native software experience, ideally on AWS.
- At least AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Strong coding skills in Python, Java or Golang.
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge of cloud native principles
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Comfortable working across functional teams from different lines of business from engineers, architects to product managers and potentially remote.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS Solution Architect or Developer certifications or higher professional certification valuable
- Ideally familiarity and experience with C4 and UML modelling tools
- Good experience with Kubernetes, using CLI, developing and deploying applications and leveraging service mesh technologies.
- Comfortable with common identity and access based standards including SAML and OIDC and approaches including ABAC.