Cloud Solution Architect

Title: Solution Architect

Location is Richmond, VA

Long Term

Required Experience & Mandatory Skill

10 15+ Years Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, Enterprise Architecture

5 8+ Years Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architecture & Enterprise Solution Design

5 8+ Years GKE, Cloud Run, Apigee, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, IAM

5 7+ Years Enterprise Integration Architecture, API Design, Hybrid Cloud Integration

4 6+ Years Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes, Containerization

4 6+ Years Secure Multi-Tenant Architecture, RBAC, IAM, Encryption

4 6+ Years API Management Platforms (Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, Azure API Management)

3 5+ Years Event-Driven Architecture using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Eventarc

3 5+ Years Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Governance, Canonical Data Models

3 5+ Years Cloud SQL, Spanner, BigQuery, Snowflake

3 5+ Years Monitoring, Observability, Logging, Audit Frameworks

3 5+ Years Enterprise Document Processing & Workflow Solutions

2 4+ Years DevSecOps, CI/CD, Terraform, GitOps

2 4+ Years Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, High Availability

2 4+ Years OAuth, OIDC, JWT, Zero Trust Architecture, KMS

2 3+ Years Cloud Workflows, Airflow, Composer, Camunda

Secondary / Preferred Skills

GCP Certifications (Preferred)

Hands-on experience with:

PySpark

Dataproc

Composer

Cloud Functions

GKE

Pub/Sub

Secret Manager

Artifact Registry

Apigee

Kafka

SFTP

Cloud File Exchange

AI-driven Optimization and Automation

Cloud Cost Optimization

Exposure to AWS and/or Azure Cloud Platforms is a plus.