Lead AWS API Architect for Cloud Modernization

Northern Base; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Base is seeking an AWS Architect Lead to design, implement, and migrate enterprise APIs across payments, money movement, and reporting platforms. You will build secure, scalable APIs and microservices on AWS, with Java/Spring Boot, OpenShift, and containerized deployments.

Lead API lifecycle activities from architecture through production, collaborating with architects, product owners, and engineers to translate requirements into resilient cloud-native solutions and secure, observable

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in API development and microservices with cloud migration experience.
• Hands-on AWS proficiency and experience migrating legacy services.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders across architecture to production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support secure, scalable APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting.
• Migrate APIs and integration services to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, and AWS Transfer Family.
• Develop 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 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

Microservices

Cloud migration

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Observability

Tools

API Gateway

Lambda

ECS

SQS/SNS

DynamoDB

Job description

Northern Base is seeking an AWS Architect Lead to design, implement, and migrate enterprise APIs across payments, money movement, and reporting platforms. You will build secure, scalable APIs and microservices on AWS, with Java/Spring Boot, OpenShift, and containerized deployments.

Lead API lifecycle activities from architecture through production, collaborating with architects, product owners, and engineers to translate requirements into resilient cloud-native solutions and secure, observable