Cloud Solution Architect

Description:

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The Cloud Solution Architect Applications is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and architecture of cloud-native application solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS CDK, and Amazon Bedrock.

This individual demonstrates strong technical leadership, deep cloud architecture expertise, and a service-oriented mindset to deliver scalable, secure, and modern application platforms.

Responsibilities include defining application architecture strategy, standards, governance, and best practices, ensuring alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.

This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to design, develop, modernize, and optimize applications leveraging microservices, serverless, and AI-enabled capabilities.

The architect ensures solutions are highly available, secure, scalable, and cost optimized, while supporting enterprise digital transformation initiatives and long-term architecture goals.

SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY:

1. Will lead architecture and provide technical guidance to a team of engineers and developers across application platforms

2. Complexity: High

SPECIFIC DUTIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES (List in order of importance):

Application Architecture & Cloud Design

- Define and maintain enterprise application architecture using AWS services including EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CDK, and Bedrock

- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native solutions

- Establish architecture patterns (microservices, serverless, API-first, event-driven)

- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and cloud strategy

Cloud-Native Application Enablement

- Architect and guide implementation of container-based applications using Amazon EKS

- Design serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and event-driven patterns

- Enable API-driven architectures using API Gateway

- Promote reusable frameworks and standard design patterns

DevOps & Automation

- Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using AWS CDK

- Establish CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment

- Promote GitOps practices for Kubernetes (EKS) environments

Performance, Scalability & Reliability

- Design highly available, fault-tolerant application architectures

- Optimize performance and cost (auto-scaling, compute optimization, concurrency control)

- Implement monitoring and observability using AWS-native tools

- Define SLAs, KPIs, and system health metrics

Data Lake Architecture & Enablement

- Design and implement data lake architectures for centralized storage of raw and diverse datasets

- Enable schema-on-read and ELT-based processing models to support flexible analytics and AI use cases

- Support advanced use cases including machine learning, GenAI, and large-scale analytics workloads

- Ensure scalable and cost-effective storage using cloud object storage platforms

- Implement governance frameworks to prevent data quality issues and ensure discoverability

Security, Compliance & Governance

- Ensure secure architecture using IAM, encryption, network isolation, and API security

- Enforce authentication, authorization, and data protection standards

- Align solutions with enterprise security policies and compliance requirements

- Establish governance for application, API, and AI workloads

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

Security, Compliance & Governance

- Ensure integrations comply with security, audit, and regulatory requirements

- Enforce data privacy, encryption, and access control standards

- Support audits by providing documentation, logs, and integration controls

- Maintain integration documentation, runbooks, and architectural diagrams

BASIC QUALIFICIATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in related field

- 12+ years of technical experience with cloud and application architecture

- 10+ years of experience designing AWS-based application solutions

- Strong experience with:

- Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)

- AWS Lambda (serverless architecture)

- API Gateway (API lifecycle management)

- AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code)

- Amazon Bedrock (AI/GenAI application integration)

- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs (REST/GraphQL), and integration patterns

- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems

- Proven experience driving cloud-native application modernization

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional preferred)

- Experience with event-driven architectures (EventBridge, SQS, SNS)

- Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices

- Experience integrating with enterprise systems (SAP, middleware platforms preferred)

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

- Experience working in cross-functional and global teams

- Proven ability to drive large-scale transformation initiatives

ADA Disclaimer:

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position.

However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation.

All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis

Skills

Solution Architect, Solution Design