Cloud Solution Architect – Applications

GyanSys Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GyanSys Inc. is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect – Applications to lead the design, delivery, and governance of cloud-native application solutions on AWS, including EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CDK, and Bedrock.

You will drive scalable, secure, and cost-optimized architectures, mentor engineers, establish patterns for microservices and serverless workloads, and ensure alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of technical experience with cloud and application architecture.
• 10+ years of experience designing AWS-based application solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Data Lake Architecture & Enablement.

Skills

AWS Lambda

AWS CDK

Microservices

Serverless architectures

REST/GraphQL APIs

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Amazon EKS

API Gateway

Bedrock

CDK

Job description

JOB TITLE: Cloud Solution Architect – Applications

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:

Will lead architecture and provide technical guidance to a team of engineers and developers

across application platforms.

SPECIFIC DUTIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• 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.
• Promote reusable frameworks and standard design patterns.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using AWS CDK.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment.
• Promote GitOps practices for Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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:

• AWS Lambda (serverless architecture)
• AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code)
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs (REST/GraphQL), and integration patterns

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.