Cloud Architect

What you'll Do

Primary Responsibility:

You will be responsible to design, build, deploy, and maintain business applications for Americold's cloud systems and technologies.

As an experienced technologist and key member, you will help influence architectural choices across broad use cases involving security, data lake, analytics, and AI/ML.

The ideal candidate will possess demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

You will be responsible to provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership.

You will work closely with business and cross-functional technical teams to offer strategies to optimize existing solutions on the cloud as well as propose new solutions on cloud platforms to migrate existing workloads, assist with cloud migration efforts, review workload architectures, and provide guidance on how to address high-risk issues.

You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the technical data engineers and data analysts.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for Architecting, designing, developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining scalable, cost-effective, and efficient Cloud solutions on data lake while taking care of compliance and best practices.

• Design, develop and implement proof-of-concept solutions, cloud architectures, data engineering and analytics solutions for data lake and applications.

• Working closely with stakeholders and product teams to understand business objectives, bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders and creating cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.

• Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders within - Business Operations, Sales / Business Development, Finance and Customers

• Ensure that the architecture and solutions are compliant with cloud best practices and mitigate any security vulnerabilities that might occur.

• Troubleshoot technical issues and ensure the smooth operation of cloud environments.

• Look for ways to move older systems and solutions into the cloud for more efficiency.

• Scale our cloud data infrastructure, data pipelines and tools to meet growing business needs ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.

• Implement solutions using AWS cloud offerings such as ECS, ECR, EKS, CloudFormation, Dockers, S3, Lambda, Glue Jobs, DocumentDB, AWS Cognito and API Gateway

• Manage the AWS cloud data lake, work with cloud services, deploy applications, automate tasks using scripts, and monitor performance and security.

• Evaluate and enhance data quality and reliability.

• Making hardware and software recommendations based on the needs of the project and organization.

Evaluate and recommend the most effective cloud tools and services.

• Adapt to shifting priorities, find the answer to business problem and constantly learn about changing technology and best practices.

What Experience and Education You Need

• Bachelor of...