Senior AWS Solutions Architect — FinTech Payments Platform

Itmates; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Itmates is seeking a Senior AWS Architect to own the architecture of a regulated payments platform. You will design multi-account landing zones, implement security baselines, and drive FinOps in a remote, contractor-engaged role across LATAM and US overlap.

You will collaborate with engineering on services (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK), ensure PCI SOC2 compliance, and lead architecture reviews to optimize cost and resilience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering.
• 4+ years architecting on AWS.
• Infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform or CDK.
• Experience in PCI DSS or SOC 2 environments.
• Deep networking knowledge (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
• Ability to write clear design documents and defend trade-offs in English.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the multi-account landing zone (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center).
• Define reference architectures for services on EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora and MSK.
• Lead multi-region resilience and disaster recovery design with tested RTO and RPO targets.
• Set security standards: network segmentation, KMS key strategy, secrets management.
• Run architecture reviews and Well-Architected assessments with engineering teams.
• Drive FinOps: tagging, budgets, savings plans and right-sizing.

Skills

AWS Architecture

Terraform/CDK

Security & Compliance

Networking (VPC/Transit)

English Communication

Job description

Itmates is seeking a Senior AWS Architect to own the architecture of a regulated payments platform. You will design multi-account landing zones, implement security baselines, and drive FinOps in a remote, contractor-engaged role across LATAM and US overlap.

You will collaborate with engineering on services (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, MSK), ensure PCI SOC2 compliance, and lead architecture reviews to optimize cost and resilience.