Solutions Design IT Specialist (Cloud Architect)

at  TD Bank

SUMMARY / DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Responsible for the creation and Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology - SDD (Solution Design Document).
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
• Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments.
• Work closely Architect, Infrastructure, ITS, IT System Build Environment Management teams to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.
• Support EDPP Hadoop applications/tools, identify/address application/data issue of cross-capability and cross-release that may affect application integrity.
• Support tools/apps on Cloudera Hadoop platform, day-to-day operation support on big data ingestion/extraction, ETL, permission, Applications, administration, on Hive, Workflow, Oozie/Hue, CDH (Cloudera), Podium, Sentry, HBase, etc.
• Actively involved on application/system support and application issue resolution: identify and assess issues, troubleshooting and investigation, recommend best resolution to clients or resolve escalated issues.
• Join projects aimed at evolving the base infrastructure, deploying new technologies, or optimizing the operational environment.
• Focus on problem determination including data gathering and analysis, troubleshooting, investigation.
• Develop scripts using appropriate tools to address gaps, simplify or enhance the application/system or environment.
• Platform/infrastructure maintenance including operation, disaster recovery, monitoring, upgrading, security (LDAP), patching, configuration change, failover, replication, etc.
• PROVIDED TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND IMMEDIATE RESOLUTION FOR OUTAGES/PROBLEMS/ISSUESAdvisory Technical Service Professional, IBM
• Designed data mart structures based on business line requirements, build ETL process from various source inputs to target data mart, build Cube, report, and dashboard for data analytics.
• Explored and hands on practicing on big data , Akora / EDPP/ HEAT tools and framework , Hadoop , Python etc.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
• Knowledge transfer within group.