AWS API & Cloud Migration Architect

SFE; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SFE is seeking an AWS Architect to lead API development, modernize microservices, and migrate services to the AWS cloud across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. This remote role emphasizes hands-on AWS expertise, API security, and scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-grade APIs, ensure performance, and drive observability and reliability across the stack.

Qualifications

• Must design, develop, and secure scalable APIs and microservices.
• Deep AWS experience including migration of on-premise services.
• Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiar with API security, authentication, encryption, and secrets management.
• Strong collaboration with architects, product owners, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.
• Participate in the modernization and migration of APIs and integration services from on-premises environments to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, and AWS Transfer Family.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS-native technologies while following enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Support and enhance existing API platforms by troubleshooting issues, implementing new functionality, improving resiliency and optimizing performance.
• Develop and maintain event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS to support real-time payment and money movement processing.
• Build, deploy, and support containerized applications using OpenShift, Docker, and AWS ECS platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, business partners, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Implement secure coding practices and API security controls including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management.
• Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability through performance tuning, monitoring, and proactive problem resolution.
• Participate in API migration activities, including legacy application assessment, refactoring, testing, deployment, and production cutover support.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment of cloud resources.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Utilize observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Grafana, and Splunk to monitor application health and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in on-call support, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure platform stability and operational excellence.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to improve software quality and maintainability.

Skills

API development

Cloud migration

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Security best practices

CI/CD

Terraform

Observability

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Terraform

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

X-Ray

Grafana

Splunk

Kafka

Job description

SFE is seeking an AWS Architect to lead API development, modernize microservices, and migrate services to the AWS cloud across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. This remote role emphasizes hands-on AWS expertise, API security, and scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-grade APIs, ensure performance, and drive observability and reliability across the stack.