AI & Data

In this age of disruption, organizations need to navigate the future with confidence, embracing decision making with clear, data-driven choices that deliver enterprise value in a dynamic business environment.

The AI & Data team leverages the power of data, analytics, robotics, science and cognitive technologies to uncover hidden relationships from vast troves of data, generate insights, and inform decision-making. Together the offering portfolio helps clients transform their business by architecting organizational intelligence programs and differentiated strategies to win in their chosen markets.

AI & Data will work with our clients to:

•      Implement large-scale data ecosystems including data management, governance and the integration of structured and unstructured data to generate insights leveraging cloud-based platforms

•      Leverage automation, cognitive and science-based techniques to manage data, predict scenarios and prescribe actions

•      Drive operational efficiency by maintaining their data ecosystems, sourcing analytics expertise and providing As-a-Service offerings for continuous insights and improvements

AWS Cloud Architect

As an AWS Cloud Architect, you will lead technical teams to deliver cutting edge solutions on cloud platforms for some of our Fortune 1000 clients. You will have the opportunity to contribute to work that may involve building new cloud solutions, migrating an application to co-exist in the hybrid cloud, deploying a global cloud application across multiple countries or providing design guidance /POC for our managed services team for continuous optimization. Our teams of technologists have a diverse range of skills and we are always looking for new ways to innovate and help our clients succeed.

Work You’ll Do

As AWS Architect you will have multiple responsibilities depending on project type. One type of project may involve Migration of applications to be optimized for the cloud, testing and deploying for production.  Another type of project might involve automation, where you take a manual provisioning processes and code them based on a triggered event. From an operational viewpoint, your role may require setting up alarms, event trigger or dashboard to monitor AWS resource workloads. The key responsibilities may involve some or all the areas listed below:

•        In Depth knowledge of on-premises, cloud AWS, hybrid deployment and distribution for Data & Analytics

•        Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be solutions in alignment with business outcomes

•        Identify problem areas, perform root cause analysis of architectural design and provide relevant solutions to the problem

•        Enable delivery teams and act as mentor by providing optimal delivery solutions with automations and frameworks for improved productivity 

•        Implement proof of concepts to validate cloud concepts, architecture and requirements.  •    Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud services and Terraform

•        Develop automation scripts for AWS using AWS SDK, cloud formation etc.

•        Expertise in Clous Pass solutions like -S3, AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Redshift etc.

•        Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of latest technologies

•        Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

•        Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software systems design organization.

•        Provides domain-specific expertise and overall software systems leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.

•        Exposure into broad spectrum of emerging technologies, their commercial implications and market prospects

•        Participating in pre-sales and sales support activities related to Hyperscaler and other emerging technologies

•        Implement application CI/CD pipeline, monitor and maintain multiple (DevOps) environments based on client requirements

•        Understand and document technical requirements from clients

•        Design the HA / DR strategies and oversee build of the environment & migration plans

•        Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance controls 

Technical Requirements

•   Education: B.E./B.Tech/M.C.A./M.Sc (CS)

•   Experience in provisioning and spinning up AWS EC2 instances - on-Demand, Spot, dedicated instances, and cost calculation.

•   Experience with server less architecture (Lambda), API gateway and RESTful services/JSON etc.

•   Experience with one or more relational databases on AWS RDS – Oracle/ SQL Server/ MySQL and/or cloud data warehouse databases such as AWS Redshift

•   Exposure to Data migration facilities such as DMS, S3 COPY, streaming, Kinesis, Batch • Experience in developing applications on AWS Cloud infrastructure.

•   Exposure to DevOps tools, deployment and orchestration technologies such as AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline etc.

•   Experience with monitoring resources and applications using CloudWatch metrics, alarms and logs and tracking user activity, API usage using CloudTrail

•   Experience with cloud assessment and migration on-premise workloads onto AWS.

•   Expertise in AWS Architecture, Automation Tools and understanding of the agile development process.

•   Experience in Migration from on-prem to Cloud using AWS migration tools

•   Experience with VPN connectivity between regions and subnets 

•   Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for cloud infrastructures

•   Exposure to one or more - Python, Perl, Ruby or UNIX shell scripting.

•   Experience working with AWS Command line utility (CLI) and SDKs.

•   Exposure to EMR, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Athena, WAF, CloudHMS, Direct Connect, Glue, , Load balancer

•   Expertise in SPARK programming using Scala or Pyspark or Java

•   Experience with cloud security architectures – Encryption (Rest & Motion)

Consulting Requirements

•   10+ years of relevant consulting, industry or technology experience

•   Proven experience assessing client’s workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability

•   Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint

•   Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership and mentor team to build necessary competency

•   Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.

•   Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

•   Strong Communicator and demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills 

Preferred

•        Strong IT consulting experience of AWS Public Cloud based Solutions 

•        Experience in Cloud Computing (Public/Private/Hybrid) specifically on Cloud first application development 

•        Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

•        Experience maintaining internet facing production-grade applications in virtualized environments in AWS Cloud Platform.

•        Experience writing scripts in one or more languages such as Python, UNIX Scripting and/or similar.

•        AWS Certified Associate or Professional

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