Remote Cloud Architect - AWS & Modernization Leader

Gainwell Technologies; Colorado; On-site; USD 95,100 - 135,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Educational assistance

Flexible vacation policy

Leadership development academies

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies is seeking an Experienced Application Architect to join our team, enabling cloud-native, scalable architectures across healthcare-related platforms. This role emphasizes AWS-based design, security, and modern migration strategies to deliver robust, cost-efficient solutions for clients across the U.S.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor teams, and engage with clients to align technical direction with business goals.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience.
• Experience with TOGAF and Well-Architected framework.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation.
• Experience with microservices, serverless architectures, event‑driven design, container platforms, integration patterns.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and observability, cost optimization, high availability / disaster recovery.
• Understanding of SDLC and client requirements.
• Leadership experience to mentor others.
• Preferred: AWS Certification, Okta or other IAM experience

Responsibilities

• Serve as the account domain expert, maintaining a 360‑degree view of the account, business priorities, and technology landscape.
• Provide technology leadership with a strong focus on cloud‑native design and AWS application architecture.
• Assess solution risks and provide recommendations to address security, resiliency, performance, and operational concerns.
• Implement technical processes to enable solution delivery, DevOps pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Drive project delivery by translating architectural vision into scalable, supportable solutions.
• Provide consultation on non‑routine technical issues and support Level 4 production needs.
• Participate in escalation calls and help drive timely technical resolution.
• Engage directly with clients as needed to communicate architecture decisions, solution direction, and technical recommendations.
• Design cloud‑native and hybrid application architectures.
• Define architecture for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead application migration and modernization to AWS.
• Guide adoption of AWS best practices, reference architectures, and Well‑Architected principles.
• Partner with security teams to implement IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance controls.
• Support production reliability, troubleshooting, and architecture governance.
• Work with development teams on containerization, serverless, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
• Participate in architecture review boards.

Skills

Cloud-native design

AWS architecture

TOGAF

Well-Architected

Microservices

Serverless

DevSecOps

Leadership

Security

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional

Tools

CloudFormation

Lambda

EC2

API Gateway

Job description

Gainwell Technologies is seeking an Experienced Application Architect to join our team, enabling cloud-native, scalable architectures across healthcare-related platforms. This role emphasizes AWS-based design, security, and modern migration strategies to deliver robust, cost-efficient solutions for clients across the U.S.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor teams, and engage with clients to align technical direction with business goals.