Senior Cloud Architect (AWS) - Platform & Design Lead

HMH; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co in Ireland (Dublin) seeks an experienced AWS Solution Architect Professional to lead cloud initiatives and enterprise-scale design. You will translate business needs into scalable architectures, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive best practices across development and operations.

The role requires a strong background in cloud design, software lifecycle, and infrastructure automation, with certification in AWS expected within the first year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, applied mathematics, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 Years of application development experience in large corporations building enterprise class systems with demanding technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create roadmaps based on business requirements, capacity, efficiency, and ecosystem security
• Translate business requirements into diagrams, domain models, well-formed technical requirements, and codified cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with software programmers and engineers in terms of designing spring boot-based services, application integrations, and relational database design and deployments.
• Provide domain knowledge leadership across multiple development teams.
• Develop best practices and define patterns.
• Ensure the quality and reliability of production systems, design, and migrate applications, plan courses of action, and develop both tactical and strategic plans.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Communicate strategies and designs to all audiences: Development teams, Infrastructure teams, and management.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Cloud architecture

Software lifecycle management

Cloud infrastructure design

Containerized app development

Soft skills

Awareness of computing trends

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Applied Mathematics / related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub Enterprise

Job description

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co in Ireland (Dublin) seeks an experienced AWS Solution Architect Professional to lead cloud initiatives and enterprise-scale design. You will translate business needs into scalable architectures, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive best practices across development and operations.

The role requires a strong background in cloud design, software lifecycle, and infrastructure automation, with certification in AWS expected within the first year.