Senior Cloud Architect – Financial Services

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an experienced cloud solutions architect to balance strategic vision with hands-on technical work in Austin, TX. You will design and architect scalable cloud solutions, assess workloads, and navigate trade-offs to deliver secure, cost-optimized architectures.

You will build trusted advisor relationships with senior leaders, translate business needs into technical requirements, and guide cross-functional teams across compute, networking, storage, security, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains such as cloud computing, software development, or security.
• 3+ years designing or implementing applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years IT development or consulting in software or internet industries.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex customer requirements, making technical trade-offs and evaluating architectures for scale while ensuring solutions are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer senior leaders, understanding their business objectives and technical challenges to influence strategic direction and ensure technology decisions will meet long-term business outcomes.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences, creating technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others while harmonizing discordant views to build consensus.
• Lead technical discussions and dive deeply into technical details with customer teams across application architecture, system design, and implementation considerations, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Drive effective customer feedback gathering, distilling and translating feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams while contributing to reference designs and reusable artifacts.

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks an experienced cloud solutions architect to balance strategic vision with hands-on technical work in Austin, TX. You will design and architect scalable cloud solutions, assess workloads, and navigate trade-offs to deliver secure, cost-optimized architectures.

You will build trusted advisor relationships with senior leaders, translate business needs into technical requirements, and guide cross-functional teams across compute, networking, storage, security, and