AWS Architect

Job Description

Company Description

About Verisk Financial | Fintellix:

Verisk Financial | Fintellix, a Verisk business (NASDAQ:VRSK), is a leading provider of risk, compliance management and analytical solutions for the financial services industry. With an innovative Enterprise Data Management platform and proven industry expertise, we have helped our clients accelerate their growth by helping them master data management and regulatory reporting and focus on critical business issues. Our multi-country regulatory reporting platform enables a 'code less' conversion of underlying datasets into standardized data taxonomy further mapped into multiple regulatory formats. Our supervisory data collection platform allows supervisory bodies to create an environment for reporting entities to submit data online, on-demand and real-time, with and integrated workflow for data or return submission and compliance monitoring. Our data curation platform helps automate and streamline the data curation workflows, including validation and enrichment of system generated data, capturing manually maintained data, via online or offline edits, with maker-checker and complete audit trail, and attestation of datasets by designated business/ data owners. Headquartered in New York, USA, we have our offices in UK, India, and Australia. With a legacy of deployments in over 25 organizations across 30 countries, our team of highly skilled individuals and innovative product development models continue help our clients remain at the forefront of cutting-edge technology.

Job Description

Designation – Principal Data Engineer I

Requirements:

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to join the Verisk Analytics Cloud Center of Excellence team supporting the migration and optimization of applications and services to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role will support our Financial Services vertical and will be responsible for driving our re-architecture and migration of Microsoft based solutions to AWS. The ideal candidate will have broad architecture experience, both application and infrastructure, with demonstrated experience in migrating complex data platforms to AWS. The Cloud Solutions Architect will assess existing platforms, design the future state and execute the migration of applications and infrastructure to AWS cloud native solutions.

• The role requires solid experience in cloud computing environments, hands on technical skills, passion and appetite to master new technologies, and excellent communication skills.
• Analyze and architect the migration of large data processing pipelines, business intelligence and analytics platforms and client delivery interfaces to AWS cloud native solutions
• Create AWS cloud native blueprints and components that can be shared across multiple DevOps teams
• Manage the CCPS or DAPS teams and be involved in AWS Migration, Develop and support new implementation on cloud, Assist team on trouble shooting processes
• Ensure smooth ingestion, processing, and validation of datasets across DAPS and other US and CA studies
• Develop new and improve existing products, processes, and methodologies.
• Support external and internal clients with projects
• Manage and mentor the team
• Ensure adherence to architectural tenets through coaching, guidance and reviews of application solutions
• Optimize solution architectures to maximize performance and minimize costs; implement cost control mechanisms
• Assist application architects to design secure solutions that leverage cloud services and are aligned to enterprise security requirements and best practices
• Continuously manage, monitor, and update operations architectures as business needs evolve and additional cloud services become available
• Work collaboratively with project teams to implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable cloud technology adoption
• Coordinate with product owners to incorporate the voice of the customer.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of architecture experience
• Minimum of 8 years of software development/coding experience
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructures on AWS for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications
• AWS Certified Associate Level required, Professional preferred
• Hands-on experience with cloud adoption and migration from assessment through cloud native implementation
• Experience with container orchestration platforms and serverless
• Experience coding in higher level programming language: Python, Java or Go
• Technical knowledge of infrastructure components (network, storage, Linux, Windows), security and application development (e.g. .Net)
• Familiarity with fullstack development frameworks
• Creative and innovative approach to problem solving and passion for continuous improvement
• Experience mentoring and coaching colleagues
• Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience in financial services and an understanding of the related regulatory requirements is a plus but not required

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