Senior Onsite AWS Solutions Architect - Albany, NY

Sligo Software Solutions Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. seeks an AWS Solutions Architect for a 36-month engagement with NY State ITS in Albany, NY.

The role requires leading secure, scalable AWS architectures and collaboration with analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate requirements into implementation plans. Candidates should have 15+ years of experience, 10+ years in related AWS work, and at least 2 years of supervisory experience.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience with enterprise cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security, and governance.
• Proven leadership and supervisory experience in technical teams.
• Experience with multi-account AWS environments and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical design of secure, scalable AWS-based applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads.
• Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate requirements into AWS architectures and implementation specs.
• Design API-based, event-driven, scheduled, and other integration patterns among AWS services and external systems.
• Define service selection, data flows, network and account topology, IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, and cost-control approaches.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, standards, templates, and guidance for AWS initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership to AWS data engineering and DevOps/CloudOps resources and conduct design reviews.
• Review AWS designs by vendors to ensure alignment with architecture, security, governance, and ops standards.
• Support proofs of concept, solution build, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across ops, security, reliability, and cost management.
• Create architecture diagrams, specs, decision records, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

REST APIs

Job description

Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. seeks an AWS Solutions Architect for a 36-month engagement with NY State ITS in Albany, NY.

The role requires leading secure, scalable AWS architectures and collaboration with analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate requirements into implementation plans. Candidates should have 15+ years of experience, 10+ years in related AWS work, and at least 2 years of supervisory experience.