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Job Title: Microsoft Azure Architect
Job Descriptions:
Job Responsibilities
- Assist in designing a modern data and analytics architecture to enable the business's vision of the future of Claim.
- Be an expert and drive architecture in one or more areas of data storage (Data Lakes and Warehouses), data integration, Business Intelligence and analytics.
- Partner with cloud and security architects, data and software engineers to implement cutting-edge but pragmatic solutions that will enable.
- Keep up with marketing trends in the Data & Analytics area and identify new opportunities of technologies & solutions; you will be part of the team driving the technology selection and partner with an engineering team to conduct proof of technology
- Min 8 years' experience in architecture, solutioning of data warehousing/data lake projects in Azure.
- Designs cloud based and hybrid solutions to support the analytics and information delivery needs of our customers, enabling data driven decisions throughout the organization.
- Architect, design, facilitate, lead, coordinate, and direct cloud initiatives on multiple fronts across a variety of disparate areas within the organization, this could include Application development; Data management, analytics, and protection; external IT hosting; Identity and access management; Infrastructure; Network; Security, privacy, and compliance; User experience
- Establishes and assists in computing architecture and governance frameworks for on-premise and cloud systems that incorporate security best practices and applicable regulatory compliance.
- Identifies architecture and design of scalable, performant and cost-effective infrastructure and management solutions.
- Gathers and documents technical requirements from product owners and presents specific, technical solutions to internal and external clients.
- Defines and documents the cloud reference architecture, determines standards for development and implementation across all the cloud and hybrid environments.
- Collaborates with product development teams and DevOps to advocate and ensure compliance with architectural frameworks.
- Collaborates with assigned teams in the adoption of best practices in design and deployment of systems and applications.
- Performs project scoping, resource planning with internal and external customers transition and migrate from on-premises to co-located and cloud services.
- Participates in meetings, workshops, and seminars providing and conveying information identifying appropriate actions and developing recommendations.
- Maintains and builds scripts to manage on premise, cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS) systems.
- Develops and revises disaster recovery processes and procedures and related documentation in support of internal and external customer computing environments.
- Develops a library of deployable and documented cloud design templates for the automation of servers to a cloud environment.
- Maintains established security procedures and protocols in protecting the hardware and data of
- Maintains and builds scripts to manage on premise, cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS) systems.
- Develops and revises disaster recovery processes and procedures and related documentation in support of internal and external customer computing environments.
- Develops a library of deployable and documented cloud design templates for the automation of servers to a cloud environment.
- Maintains established security procedures and protocols in protecting the hardware and data of
- Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Claim business unit
- Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions
- Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions
- Partner with Data and Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies
- Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern
- Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization
- Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
- Create a partnership with Data Engineering
- Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise
- Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps
- Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
- Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction
- Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture
- Perform other duties as assigned
Experience
- At least 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing Azure-based systems.
- Five years of experience in engineering software or analytic applications within a line of business area Hands-on experience with solution design and data architecture
- 10+ years of working experience with major data warehousing solutions and database technology
- 5+ years of Data Architect experience
- Experience in big data solutions Firm understanding of programming languages
- Expertise in ETL, architecture, implementation and performance tuning of mappings, jobs, transformations
- Experience with Data, Big Data and Analytics architecture and ecosystem on premise, hybrid or cloud-based environments and other cloud technologies
- Deep understanding of Azure Experience with cloud computing and database technologies, including evaluating platform and stack architecture along with knowledge of industry best practice
Education
- Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience
Desired skills
- Strong technical skills in Data and Analytics technologies
- Cloud Lake and Warehouse – Snowflake, S3 Data Lake, other comparable technologies
- ETL/Data integration/Streaming – Talend, Data Bricks, Python, Spark, Kafka
- Information Delivery – Qlik Sense, MicroStrategy
- AWS Services
- Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud
- Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using Client and AI
- Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud
- Organizational experience in an agile operating model
- Established work in proof of concepts and technology
- Strong proven Data or Software Engineering experience
- Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
- Insurance technology experience desired
- Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Must be passionate about technology transformations
- Has hands on experience in the last 3 years
- Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy
- Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps
- Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud
- Good understanding of security
- Experienced with large scale technology platform
Onsite/Hybrid/Remote
- Onsite
Payrate
- $ 80.00
Location
- 1600 Perdido St. New Orleans, LA 70112
Preferred
- Local Candidate