AWS Solution Architect

Q1 Technologies, Inc.; Missouri; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Q1 Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced IBM MQ and AWS architecture lead to orchestrate migration, design, and delivery across development, staging and production environments.

You will own current-state discovery, define the target MQ on AWS EC2 topology, implement secure connectivity, and drive cutover readiness, validation, and production support. Collaboration with security, network and operations teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Lead current-state discovery of IBM MQ inventory, topology, interfaces and dependencies.
• Define the target IBM MQ on AWS EC2 architecture for Development, Stage and Production.
• Coordinate secure connectivity, access controls and failover considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration strategy, cutover planning and production readiness assessments.
• Design migration of MQ objects while preserving interfaces and routing behavior.
• Produce architecture documents, runbooks and operational-readiness materials.
• Coordinate decisions with application, security, network and operations teams.
• Guide automation and versioned deployment for MQ infrastructure.

Skills

IBM MQ Architecture

AWS Architecture

Stakeholder management

Architecture workshops

Production readiness

Documentation

Tools

IBM MQ

AWS EC2

VPC

TLS/mTLS

KMS

Job description

AWS architecture covering EC2, VPC, subnets, routing, DNS, I AM, KMS, storage, backup, monitoring and operational access.

IBM MQ queue managers and objects: queues, channels, remote queues, transmission queues, namelists, processes, triggers and authorities.

Network and integration architecture for application, EKS, external-agent, partner and inter-queue-manager connectivity.

Migration-wave planning, object reconciliation, non-production validation, cutover rehearsal, production cutover and hypercare.

Infrastructure automation, version-controlled deployment, observability, runbooks and operational-readiness documentation.

Lead current-state discovery and validate the IBM MQ inventory, topology, interfaces, dependencies, workload characteristics and operational constraints.

Define the target IBM MQ on AWS EC2 architecture, including Development, Stage and Production topology; Stage and Production high availability; networking; DNS; IAM; KMS; storage; backup; monitoring; and support access.

Design migration of queue managers and associated MQ objects while preserving existing application interfaces, routing and triggered-queue behavior.

Define the security architecture for TLS/mTLS, certificates, keystores, partner connectivity, channel authentication, authorities and AWS security controls.

Define and lead the migration strategy, implementation planning, cutover readiness, rollback planning, validation and production-readiness criteria.

Guide platform build and controlled, reviewed and versioned automation for IBM MQ infrastructure and configuration.

Coordinate technical decisions with application, infrastructure, security, network, operations, testing and rehosting teams; track risks, dependencies and required approvals.

Lead architecture reviews, environment-readiness validation, non-production migration, integration and failover testing, cutover rehearsal and production readiness assessments.

Support production cutover, smoke testing, message-flow reconciliation, defect triage, stabilization and hypercare.

Produce and maintain architecture documents, detailed designs, as-built documentation, operational runbooks, support procedures and knowledge-transfer materials.

Ensure delivery remains aligned with approved scope, acceptance criteria and formal change-control requirements.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Stakeholder management across business, application, cloud, network, security, middleware, testing and operations teams.

Ability to lead architecture workshops, communicate trade-offs, facilitate technical decisions and drive issue resolution.

Strong ownership of risks, dependencies, design approvals, readiness gates and production go/no-go recommendations.

Clear written and verbal communication, including executive-level status and detailed technical documentation.