Senior AWS Platform Architect – Payments Modernization

The Goldman Sachs Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Goldman Sachs Group is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Architect in Dallas, Texas, to lead the transformation of legacy payment systems into cloud-native architectures. This role involves overseeing the migration process, ensuring compliance with regulations, and developing event-driven architectures on AWS.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in financial services engineering, in-depth AWS expertise, and knowledge of payment rails and security standards. This position offers the opportunity to modernize payment engines while adhering to strict compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of migrating large-scale transaction systems to the cloud.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, and RDS.
• Expert knowledge of payment standards and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural transformation of payment systems to cloud-native ecosystems.
• Design high-availability architectures for real-time payment processing.
• Implement AI-driven testing and observability solutions.

Skills

AWS Expertise

10+ years in financial services engineering

Payment Domain knowledge

Security understanding

IaC & CI/CD proficiency

Agile Leadership

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Amazon Aurora

Amazon MSK (Kafka)

AWS Lambda

Job description

The Goldman Sachs Group is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Architect in Dallas, Texas, to lead the transformation of legacy payment systems into cloud-native architectures. This role involves overseeing the migration process, ensuring compliance with regulations, and developing event-driven architectures on AWS.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in financial services engineering, in-depth AWS expertise, and knowledge of payment rails and security standards. This position offers the opportunity to modernize payment engines while adhering to strict compliance requirements.