Job Description

Lead Amazon Web Service (AWS) solution architecture and design effort required to plan, architect, and design a complex, highly available and scalable data pipeline using AWS technologies across multiple Availability Zones within the AWS GovCloud.

·         You will support project planning efforts, by helping to (1) kick-off the work and confirm the work charter, vision, roles, and responsibilities, (2) define project meeting, communication, and reporting protocols, (3) develop the Project Management Plan and related logs and registers, (4) collect and review data source and other documents relevant to the scope of work, and (5) establish the initial product backlog.

·         You will lead efforts to architect, document, and validate the data pipeline design. As part of this effort, you will (1) identify and analyze source systems and necessary data integrations, (2) identify data and ingestion characteristics (e.g., source, volume, format, velocity, schedule), (3) develop a data dictionary for data that must be extracted, transformed and loaded, (4) define source-to-target data maps, (5) define backlog features for needed data transformations, (6) confirm non-functional requirements (NFRs), such as availability, scalability, security, and performance, that must be supported by the architecture, (7)  design and confirm the proposed architecture and incorporate changes required to support non-functional requirements, and (8) define the solution’s concept of operations by describing data ingest, orchestration, transformation, and consumption journeys and cloud service offering configurations.

·         You will lead efforts to perform a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the Bank and use PDR feedback to finalize the high-level design of data pipeline. To secure approval for the high-level design, you shall perform a Final Design Review (FDR), incorporating client feedback, as needed.

·         The data pipeline will be part of a High Value Asset (HVA) that is rated as a FISMA “High Impact” system. For this reason, you will lead efforts to design and architect the System using an AWS GovCloud infrastructure that employs cloud service offerings (CSO) that are FedRAMP authorized at the “High” Impact Level.

·         You will support efforts to make certain design and architecture deliverables comply with FISMA “High Impact” compliance level requirements and support HVA Control Overlays (Version 2.0).

·         As part of a team, you will support efforts to work with the client to identify security risks and conduct a cyber security review of the data pipeline architecture. You will help provide architecture recommendations for mitigating identified security vulnerabilities based on their experience applying industry best practices and the standards endorsed by the client.

·         You will support efforts to identify key security controls and security counter measures that are needed to reduce risk and comply with the client’s security policies. Through these efforts, you shall lead efforts to architect a solution that is Secure By Design.

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