Strategic Cloud Architect for Financial Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a senior solutions architect to partner with a leading financial institution, designing highly resilient, secure AWS architectures at global scale. You will bridge engineering and financial services, translating regulatory and business challenges into cloud solutions spanning real-time payments, fraud detection, and core banking modernization.

Join a team that values curiosity, ownership, and diverse perspectives, mentoring others while shaping cloud architectures

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Own Complex Solutions End-to-End — Lead the design, validation, and delivery of mission-critical architectures that merge deep technical expertise with business strategy to solve high-impact problems.
• Lead Technical Strategy & Advocacy — Drive technical discussions with customer teams, diving into design choices, AWS best practices, and real-world use cases to align solutions with both technical excellence and business outcomes.
• Prove Value Through Hands-On Innovation — Build proof-of-concept architectures and technical demonstrations that de-risk decisions and shorten the path from evaluation to production.
• Build Reusable Technical Content — Create scalable assets — sample code, blogs, workshops, and presentations — that empower teams to implement best practices consistently.
• Forge Consensus Across Stakeholders — Articulate clear technical and strategic visions, resolve conflicts, and drive unified execution across cross-functional teams.
• Champion Customer Needs Back to AWS — Serve as the voice of your customer inside AWS, surfacing critical gaps and influencing service team roadmaps to benefit the broader financial services industry.
• Multiply Impact Through Reuse — Modularize solutions and leverage existing assets to reduce time-to-value and amplify impact across the customer community.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS services

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a senior solutions architect to partner with a leading financial institution, designing highly resilient, secure AWS architectures at global scale. You will bridge engineering and financial services, translating regulatory and business challenges into cloud solutions spanning real-time payments, fraud detection, and core banking modernization.

Join a team that values curiosity, ownership, and diverse perspectives, mentoring others while shaping cloud architectures