Lead Java & AWS Practice Architect

TEKsystems; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

401(k)

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Architect for Atlanta, GA to define end-to-end solution architectures for complex client initiatives. The role drives technical direction across teams, ensures scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions, and guides delivery teams while staying hands-on.

The Lead Architect will mentor engineers, shape technical roadmaps, translate business goals into pragmatic plans, and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years of software development experience.
• 12+ years of hands-on Java experience.
• 5+ years as a Practice Architect or Lead Architect.
• 5+ years of AWS experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for a domain or major initiative, including integrations, data flows, and non functional requirements
• Define and govern architecture for large scale, distributed, cross platform systems
• Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap with product and engineering leadership
• Lead architecture and design reviews; document key decisions, trade offs, and guardrails
• Stay hands on through prototypes, reference implementations, and technical spikes to mitigate risk
• Establish and enforce engineering standards across APIs, testing, CI/CD, and secure by default practices
• Embed operability by design, including observability, resilience, runbooks, and incident readiness
• Serve as a technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis and systemic remediation
• Contribute across the SDLC, including estimation, design, and delivery
• Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects
• Support pre sales with solution architecture and effort estimation
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns
• Leads and mentors a team of architects, providing architectural oversight across multiple programs to drive consistency, scalability, and adherence to engineering best practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Java

AWS

Lead Architect

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

ECS

EKS

Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

S3

CloudWatch

Route53

ACM

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Lead Architect for Atlanta, GA to define end-to-end solution architectures for complex client initiatives. The role drives technical direction across teams, ensures scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions, and guides delivery teams while staying hands-on.

The Lead Architect will mentor engineers, shape technical roadmaps, translate business goals into pragmatic plans, and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to deliver high-quality systems.