Senior AWS Cloud Architect & Engineering Lead

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud architect to own the target-state, event-driven architecture on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, and database services. You will set governance standards, review artifacts, and guide multiple teams through complex design decisions.

Lead architecture governance, translate business needs into concrete platform deliverables, and engage VP-level stakeholders to ensure delivery excellence across multi-vendor programs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software or platform engineering experience.
• Solid hands-on knowledge of Step Functions, Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, and Bedrock.
• Proven delivery modernizing legacy applications and processes into event-driven, and increasingly agentic, architectures.
• Comfortable reading Python, Node.js/JavaScript, and Terraform well enough to provide design-level feedback and assess system architecture.
• Able to contribute to and review REST or GraphQL contracts and catch integration problems before development starts.
• Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate FRDs, BRDs, and functional specifications and convert them into platform deliverables engineers can execute against.
• A track record engaging business and technical stakeholders at VP level and above in person, and holding the room.
• Experience managing offshore development teams, specialist firms, or partner delivery relationships within a larger program.
• Familiarity with solution architecture and design review processes, including contributing to an ARB or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal skills — clear documentation, decision logs, ADRs, and status reports that hold up under scrutiny.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture for event-driven designs built on AWS services.
• Make and defend service selection, integration pattern, and design tradeoffs grounded in distributed systems fundamentals.
• Set engineering standards and definition of done across multiple teams.
• Review code and artifacts with design-level depth to provide meaningful feedback.
• Coordinate delivery across teams, vendors, offshore groups, and analytics firms.
• Engage senior client stakeholders at VP level and above as the technical voice of the program.
• Translate business requirements into precise platform deliverables for engineers to execute.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Team coordination

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Software Engineering

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

AWS ECS Fargate

API Gateway

DynamoDB

S3

EventBridge

Bedrock

Python

Node.js/JavaScript

Terraform

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud architect to own the target-state, event-driven architecture on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, and database services. You will set governance standards, review artifacts, and guide multiple teams through complex design decisions.

Lead architecture governance, translate business needs into concrete platform deliverables, and engage VP-level stakeholders to ensure delivery excellence across multi-vendor programs.