Lead AWS Cloud Solutions Architect — Data & Security

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking a Lead Engineer / AWS Solutions Architect to architect, design, and implement cloud-native AWS solutions for the Financial Crimes Technology group. This hybrid role is based in St. Petersburg, FL, with in-office 3 days per week and a focus on scalable, secure architectures.

You will lead enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and integrations while mentoring teams and driving DevOps practices. Strong cloud, data, and security expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, integration, and serverless technologies.
• Experience designing cloud-native, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures using modern software engineering principles.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud integration patterns, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of AWS security, networking, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational excellence following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, solve complex technical challenges, and mentor engineering teams.
• Ability To Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business audiences.
• Lead architecture discussions and influence strategic technology decisions across multiple teams.
• Analyze complex problems and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Build collaborative relationships across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business organizations.
• Balance strategic architecture responsibilities with hands‑on implementation and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions supporting enterprise Financial Crimes applications.
• Design cloud-native applications, enterprise data platforms, and integration solutions using modern microservices, serverless, event-driven, and API-based architectures.
• Develop and optimize enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration frameworks supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads.
• Define cloud architecture standards, security controls, networking, observability, resiliency, and operational best practices while promoting Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation.
• Collaborate with application, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of engineering best practices.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud security

Serverless

Microservices

Python

SQL

REST APIs

CI/CD

IaC

Networking

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/EKS

Kafka/MSK

Job description

Raymond James is seeking a Lead Engineer / AWS Solutions Architect to architect, design, and implement cloud-native AWS solutions for the Financial Crimes Technology group. This hybrid role is based in St. Petersburg, FL, with in-office 3 days per week and a focus on scalable, secure architectures.

You will lead enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and integrations while mentoring teams and driving DevOps practices. Strong cloud, data, and security expertise are essential.