Cloud Architect

Join Team CARFAX as a Cloud Architect.

Team CARFAX is looking for hands-on, system-level thinkers who understand the

many tradeoffs of technology choices, engage with distributed teams and help

architect and design cloud-based platforms and data migration strategies to be

leveraged across many departmental development teams.

The Tech Culture at CARFAX:

Having a creative and innovative environment where our developers can

collaborate, learn and grow is something CARFAX is passionate about. We have an

entire floor dedicated to our techies, designed specifically to enable teams to

dream big and produce the best. Along with creating and maintaining awesome

software you’ll also be able to participate in our annual Hack-a-thon or take a

break by kicking back and playing the latest game on x-box when you need to

re-boot the mind. Oh, and do you happen to have a dog? CARFAX is dog-friendly

and no day goes by where you don’t have the chance to visit with one of the

visiting pups. We even provide the dog beds, bowls and of course, toys!

At CARFAX, we believe in the power of teamwork and value in-person interactions

so that we can collaborate and thrive together. This position will require 3

days per week in our Columbia, MO office subject to change with future business

needs.

What you’ll be doing:

* Providing technical leadership to the data ingest development teams

* Analyze system requirements and workflow analysis, prepare design and

architectural specifications

* Assist in the architectural design of migrating from legacy systems

* Ensure uniform enterprise-wide application design standards are maintained

* Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and

prototyping

* Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers,

support teams and other stakeholders

* Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications, data storage and processes

* Continuously analyze and evaluate our systems, products and process for

potential improvements

* Communicate across development teams to understand pain points and places

where improvements can be beneficial

* Educate business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use

of AWS products and services

You’ll need to:

* Communicate - Be vocal! We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is

needed and valued!

* Have a Self-Driven attitude - ability to quickly come up to speed with

different technologies on an ongoing basis

* Exhibit technical acumen - Be flexible! We love to change it up by using

different technologies and need you to be open to new and different

technologies!

* Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore

what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.

What we’re looking for:

* 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3 years of that

designing & architecting web applications

* Experience in architecting and migrating big data to AWS cost effectively,

securely and reliably

* Knowledge or hands-on experience in MongoDB, Hadoop and AWS databases –

RDS/Aurora, DocumentDB and DynamoDB

* Expertise in security best practices for data at rest and in transit in AWS,

cloud security best practices and a DevSecOps mindset.

* Hands-on experience with AWS product offerings (e.g. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API

Gateway, etc.) and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

* AWS Solution Architect – Professional certification is strongly preferred

* Hands-on experience migrating legacy, non-cloud applications and date to AWS

including AWS data migration tooling, products and services.

* Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool

such as Jenkins or GitLab - be a firm believer in "automate everything"

* Knowledgeable of ETL and ELT architecture and patterns and best practices for

large-scale performance.

* Knowledge of AWS pricing and cost estimations

* Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and Excellent

interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.

* Experience building web applications across diverse technologies (Java,

Javascript, golang, etc.)

* Understand and advise teams in the design of common software and data

architectural patterns

* Ability to facilitate technical discussions, PoC technical solutions and plan

a technology roadmap

* Extensive experience in aligning application development with business needs

* Have a broad set of technology skills ingrained into DevSecOps

* Enthusiastic and motivated to apply AI to development and operations

* Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems

* Documentation and teaching mindset - Help others!

What’s in it for you:

* Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies

* 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break

* 401(k)/DCPP matching

* Annual bonus program

* Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces

* For a comprehensive list of benefits, please visit our website:

https://jobs.jobvite.com/carfax/p/benefits

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Don’t just take our word for it:

* 10X Virginia Business Best Places to Work

* 10X Washingtonian Great Places to Work

* 9X Washington Post Top Workplace

* St.Louis Post-Dispatch Best Places to Work