12 - 18 Years
Permanent
Job Description
Job Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Staff AWS Solution Architect with 15+ years of experience to leadarchitecture for a large-scale enterprise data platform supporting approximately 90 groups,more than 100 use cases, and about 500 data pipelines. The role requires deep AWS data andinfrastructure expertise, strong platform-engineering judgment, and proven ownership ofresilient systems operating under stringent recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery pointobjective (RPO) requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Cloud-Native & Distributed Systems Architecture (Core Engineering Alignment):Architect high-throughput, resilient microservices and event-driven systemsusing AWS services including EKS/ECS, EventBridge, MSK, Lambda, Aurora, andDynamoDB. Partner with application developers to standardize API design, dataaccess patterns, local development workflows, and resilient coding practicessuchas circuit breakers, retries, and dead-letter queues.
- Developer Platform & GitOps Automation (Platform Engineering Alignment): Designself-service internal platform components and reusable golden paths using AWSCDK, Terraform, and GitOps pipelines with Argo CD or Flux. Enable safedeployment, consistent platform standards, efficient Kubernetes orchestration withKarpenter, and frictionless zero-trust IAM controls.
- Enterprise Observability & SRE Partnership: Co-design end-to-end telemetry anddistributed-tracing standards using OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, and CloudWatch.Establish actionable SLIs and SLOs, multi-region disaster-recovery models with lowRPO/RTO, automated failover, and production-readiness practices for mission-criticalservices.
- Executive Business Cases & FinOps Strategy: Translate technical architecture intoclear business cases for CTO, CIO, and CFO stakeholders. Quantify ROI and total costof ownership, and lead FinOps decisions across reserved capacity, Savings Plans,workload rightsizing, and automated resource optimization.
- Architectural Governance & Strategy Realization: Establish technical roadmaps,Architecture Decision Records, and cross-functional Architecture Review Boards.Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and align platform strategy with growthobjectives, multi-year migration roadmaps, and relevant compliance obligationsincluding SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
Required Qualification
- 15+ years of overall technology experience, including substantial hands-onleadership in enterprise solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, distributedsystems, and large-scale data platforms.
- Deep production architecture experience on AWS across compute, containers,integration, data, storage, networking, security, identity, monitoring, andinfrastructure-as-code services.
- Proven experience architecting enterprise-scale platforms comparable incomplexity to environments supporting hundreds of data pipelines, multipleconsumer groups, and strict availability and recovery objectives.
- Strong hands-on credibility with EKS/ECS, Kubernetes, Karpenter, Lambda,EventBridge, MSK/Kafka, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray,AWS CDK, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps.
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