Senior Cloud-Native Architect (AWS, Microservices)

Jobtailor; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud-native enterprise architect to lead the architectural direction for a large web application portfolio hosted on AWS. You will define standards, patterns, and governance to ensure scalability, security, and mission alignment across all systems.

You will mentor teams, oversee API strategy, enable CI/CD and DevSecOps, and collaborate with security engineers, release trains, and partners to deliver resilient integrations and compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise web system design.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• Experience architecting cloud-native web applications using AWS.
• Extensive experience with web technology stacks.
• Strong expertise in API architecture, integration frameworks, service mesh patterns, and identity/access management protocols (OAuth2, OIDC).
• Hands-on experience designing integrations with external systems via event streaming, REST APIs, or secure messaging.
• Deep understanding of distributed system design, microservices, containers, orchestration, and application security.
• Experience deploying and supporting large-scale enterprise applications in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to mentor engineering teams, lead technical reviews, and guide modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overarching technical architecture for the cloud-native web application development, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with mission needs.
• Define architectural standards, modernization patterns, and engineering best practices across all system modules.
• Oversee API strategy including REST, OpenAPI specifications, authentication flows, and shared service integration patterns.
• Architect integration solutions with external systems including information systems, identity management platforms, and government partner services.
• Evaluate cloud-native design options and guide teams in implementing microservices, event-driven patterns, and secure data exchange.
• Direct the engineering approach for CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps models, and automated testing frameworks.
• Provide senior technical oversight on application development, code quality, database design, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Partner with Managers, Release Train Engineers, and Security Engineers to align architecture with customer requirements, standards and capability roadmaps.
• Support development of architectural decision records (ADRs), as needed, and participate in technical review boards, compliance assessments, and solution engineering.
• Ensure compliance with DoW cybersecurity controls, Zero Trust principles, encryption-in-flow / at-rest, boundary protection, and audit requirements.
• Support PI Planning, cross-team coordination, and technical risk management within the Agile Release Train.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to project personnel and customer for long-term platform evolution.

Skills

Mentoring Engineering Teams

Technical Review Leadership

Cross-Team Coordination

Education

Bachelor0degree in Computer Science

Tools

OAuth2

OIDC

Containers and Orchestration

REST APIs

Event-Driven Patterns

Cybersecurity Compliance

Database Design

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud-native enterprise architect to lead the architectural direction for a large web application portfolio hosted on AWS. You will define standards, patterns, and governance to ensure scalability, security, and mission alignment across all systems.

You will mentor teams, oversee API strategy, enable CI/CD and DevSecOps, and collaborate with security engineers, release trains, and partners to deliver resilient integrations and compliant solutions.