Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect — AWS/Shipboard Focus

Carnival Cruise Line; Genova; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily meal vouchers

Exclusive discounts

Wellbeing@Costa platform access

Free medical insurance

Family welfare benefits

Job summary

Costa in Genoa seeks an Application Solution Architect to govern hybrid architectures linking shipboard systems, shore services, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure a plus). You will design end-to-end solutions across data centers and vessels, translate requirements into roadmaps, and ensure security, cost control and performance.

Join a team that enables collaboration across vendors and delivery teams, while aligning with Costa and Carnival standards and architecture principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in application, solution, or cloud architecture, or complex enterprise technology design.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
• Proven experience designing hybrid solutions involving cloud platforms and on-premises / data-center environments.
• Strong AWS architecture skills, preferably in multi-account models; Azure and Microsoft Entra ID are a plus.
• Solid integration and data expertise: APIs, event-driven patterns, batch integrations, data synchronization, and distributed application design.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate, C4) and containers/Kubernetes is a plus; AWS Solutions Architect certification strongly appreciated.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent English with strong documentation and communication skills, able to balance technical quality, business value, cost, security, and delivery constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end application architectures across shipboard data centers, shore-side platforms, and cloud.
• Translate business requirements into solution architectures, integration models, and implementation roadmaps, ensuring availability, performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Design solutions operating across ships, shore data centers, and cloud, addressing intermittent connectivity, latency, data synchronization, and on-board resilience, leveraging AWS as the preferred platform.
• Apply enterprise architecture principles and Carnival standards, design integration architectures (APIs, events, batch), guide delivery teams, evaluate technologies and vendors, and embed security-by-design and FinOps cost-awareness.
• Foster collaboration among team members, ensuring a harmonious and productive work environment; collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and system integrators.

Skills

Application architecture

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

AWS

Azure

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master\'s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

AWS Solutions Architect certification

Job description

Costa in Genoa seeks an Application Solution Architect to govern hybrid architectures linking shipboard systems, shore services, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure a plus). You will design end-to-end solutions across data centers and vessels, translate requirements into roadmaps, and ensure security, cost control and performance.

Join a team that enables collaboration across vendors and delivery teams, while aligning with Costa and Carnival standards and architecture principles.