PRINCIPAL CLOUD AND DATA ENGINEERING CONSULTANT Remote Columbia SC

PRINCIPAL CLOUD AND DATA ENGINEERING CONSULTANT Remote Columbia SC Authorized to work in the US No H1B Government Experience Required: No Opportunity to: Design, develop, and maintain a modern green field Azure cloud native integration platform between statewide agencies and multiple HR and ERP solutions. Design, develop and maintain a statewide Azure cloud native Data Lakehouse solution. Provide DevOps, GitOps, and SecOps support that enables efficient development and deployment of enterprise solutions. Provide Architectural support to consulting teams responsible for critical strategic enterprise implementation projects. Mentor and support developers, engineers, and junior architects. Scope of the project: DEA IS DEVELOPING A CLOUD NATIVE INTEGRATION PLATFORM IN AZURE TO SUPPORT INTEGRATIONS BETWEEN STATE AGENCIES AND SCEIS, AS WELL AS INTEGRATIONS BETWEEN INTERNAL SCEIS APPLICATIONS. THE PLATFORM PROVIDES MODERN RESILIENT SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS INTEGRATION PATTERNS USING RESTFUL APIS, EVENT-DRIVEN, DATA LAKEHOUSE, AND OTHER ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PATTERNS AND PROVIDES EXTENSIVE OBSERVABILITY FOR ENHANCED MONITORING AND REPORTING CAPABILITIES. Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate: PARTICIPATES IN ALL AGILE ACTIVITIES o DAILY STANDUPS o BACKLOG REFINEMENT o DEMOS\REVIEWS o RETROSPECTIVES PARTICIPATES IN ALL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES o DEVELOPMENT o CODE REVIEWS o TESTING o WORKS TO COMPLETE WORK ITEM ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND THE TEAMS DEFINITION OF DONE. WORKS WITHIN THE TEAMS DEVOPS MODEL AND ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR END-TO-END QUALITY OF THEIR WORK AND SUPPORT. WORKS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, ARCHITECTURE, AND STAKEHOLDERS TO DESIGN AND ENHANCE BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL PROCESSES AND SOLUTIONS. Required Skills (rank in order of Importance): MUST HAVE AT LEAST 10 YEARS OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT USING SOLID OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN PRINCIPALS AND STANDARDS ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY AND WORK IN A COLLABORATIVE, TEAM ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT. JAVA DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE INCLUDING SPRINGBOOT, MAVEN, JUNIT. PYTHON DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE INCLUDING PYSPARK, PANDAS, FLASK, PYTEST. HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH AZURE API MANAGEMENT, STORAGE ACCOUNTS, ACR, AKS, CONTAINER APPS, FUNCTION APPS, KEY VAULT, EVENT GRID, SQL MANAGED INSTANCE. EXPERIENCE USING GIT AND STANDARD BRANCHING STRATEGIES SUCH AS GITFLOW. 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE IN AZURE VIA IAC USING ONE OR MORE OF: TERRAFORM, BICEP, ARM TEMPLATES. EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING AND MANAGING DATA PIPELINES USING AZURE SYNAPSE OR DATABRICKS. EXPERIENCE DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING MEDALLION LAKEHOUSE SOLUTIONS. EXPERIENCE DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING SQL DATABASES, TABLES, STORED PROCEDURES, FUNCTIONS, TRIGGERS, ETC. UNDERSTANDING OF MATURE RESTFUL API DESIGN CONCEPTS AND EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING OPENAPI SPECIFICAIONS. CI\CD PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE PREFERABLY USING AZURE DEVOPS. Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance): Understanding of networking services and concepts in Azure. Experience operating on an agile development team (Scrum and\or Kanban) Understanding of event driven architectures. Experience using Azure DevOps for CI\CD pipeline development, backlog management, etc. Understanding of and practice using Test-Driven development principles Understanding of and\or experience developing, using, administering SAP, SAP 4/HANA, Ivalua, or other ERP systems REQUIRED EDUCATION /CERTIFICATIONS: Bachelors degree in computer science or information management or a related technical field and two years of experience in computer system development, maintenance and modification or 5 years experience in cloud engineering and development. PREFERRED EDUCATION /CERTIFICATIONS: Azure certifications SAP, SAP 4/HANA, or Ivalua experience and\or experience with other ERP systems.