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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
When you join the Federal Reserve-the nation's central bank-you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth-along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.About the Opportunity The Enterprise Data Services (EDS) organization has an immediate opening for an Advanced Cloud Data Solutions Architect reporting to the Assistant Vice President. We are looking for a strategist who leans toward delivery and drives execution with patience and urgency.The Federal Reserve System's cloud data platform provides a common, centralized, end-to-end data and analytics platform that enables advanced data management and analytics solutions for business lines across the Federal Reserve System. We work with state-of-the-art technologies that are part of the next generation data ecosystem, which includes products and services used for data ingestion, storage, processing, integration, data lakes, warehousing, and data analytics.As an advanced architect, you will have an opportunity to showcase your critical thinking and technical skills across many disciplines and across the Federal Reserve System. This role is instrumental in shaping the direction of enterprise data. A high-level goal of this position is to be a leader of product line architecture for enterprise data services as well as a product design specialist. You will work closely with the product line enterprise architect, and cross-functionally within an Agile program with other Architects, Product Owners, Design Engineers, Developers, and Business Analysts in a rapidly evolving environment to make this happen. As an Architect, you will be accountable for documented secure and scalable architecture to fulfill business needs. You will also mentor and coach seasoned engineers who may have limited cloud and transformation experience.As part of the National IT team, our cloud data service team works with multiple business lines, the Federal Reserve Board, and multiple IT groups from Federal Reserve System districts.What You Will Do:- Define architecture principles, patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
- Document and articulate the product and technical vision for enterprise data services spanning ingestion, data management, and analytics platforms.
- Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions.
- Effectively socialize architecture to get feedback and buy-in to develop strategic direction
- Ensure that the definition of solution architecture and designs meet business and technical requirements, and principles
- Conduct architecture and design reviews
- Direct and lead product engineers to ensure architecture is understood and followed
- Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for data management.
- Develop product roadmaps in alignment with other data ecosystem subproducts and business roadmaps
- Advise and assist developers and engineers
- Advise on third-party tools that work smoothly within the Federal Reserve System AWS cloud environment
- Engage with technology teams across the Federal Reserve System to drive strategic improvements over time
- Engage with Senior Executives, business leaders at the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve Board to share strategies
- Conduct research and POCs (proofs of concept) and participate in RFPs (requests for proposal) to advise on decisions regarding emerging technologies
- Promote collaboration across business and IT organizations
- Five or more years of experience in architecting advanced enterprise data services in an enterprise setting On-Premise or in a cloud environment, hybrid experience is preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience. Advance degree preferred
- Must have a proven track record as a technology transformational leader in the data platform and analytics space.
- Must have business acumen skills to understand and anticipate business priorities
- Must have experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines in cloud and Infrastructure (IAC) and Code scripting
- Ideal candidate will have a mix solution, network, security, and data architecture
- Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity
- Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with applying and managing data governance processes
- Five or more years architecting or building with all aspects of cloud design, development, and implementation
- Experience in developing product roadmap and translating to strategic plan
- Prefer hands on experience with cloud-based data lakes, Redshift, Glue, DMS, AWS SDK and other AWS data related services including various vendor data integration, compute and storage offerings
- Experience with RDS, NOSQL Databases, RDBMS and in-memory databases
- Demonstrable experience in one or more languages such as Java, Kafka, JavaScript, Spark, PySpark and Python are a plus
- Strong background in data structures, networking, performance, and scalability
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies is a plus
- Strong application development background is a plus
- One or more certifications is a plus. Examples: Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, Certified AWS AI/ML Specialty, DevOps on an AWS platform
- Ability to communicate with self-awareness with all levels of the organization is critical to success
- Must be self-aware with strong EQ, and the flexibility to adapt communication styles to fit the audience.
- Great medical benefits
- Pension and 401(k) with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee resource networks
- Paid volunteer leave
- Flexible work options
- Onsite amenities that make working here fun
- A requirement of this position is that the employee must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; individuals who are unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation from the Bank.
- Candidates should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions. The Code is available on the About Us, Careers webpage at www.richmondfed.org
- Sponsorship is not available for this role.
- Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures.
- Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience
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