AWS Cloud Architect

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to drive enterprise cloud strategy, architecture design, and infrastructure modernization for a major financial services client in Boston, MA.

In this role, you will lead the architectural design, migration, and optimization of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will partner closely with engineering teams, security officers, and enterprise business stakeholders to ensure cloud workloads comply with strict financial sector regulatory, data governance, and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Design: Architect, design, and implement secure, high-availability, and scalable cloud infrastructure and multi-account landing zones on AWS.

• Migration Strategy: Lead application and data migration strategies (re-platforming, re-architecting, lift-and-shift) from legacy/on-premise environments to AWS.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Standardize cloud provisioning, automation, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.

• Security & Compliance: Enforce enterprise cloud security standards, IAM policies, encryption (KMS), network controls (VPC, Security Groups, Transit Gateway), and compliance frameworks suitable for financial services (SOC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST).

• DevOps & Microservices Integration: Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to containerize applications and manage deployments using AWS ECS, EKS, and CI/CD automation toolchains.

• Cost & Performance Optimization: Establish FinOps best practices to monitor cloud consumption, optimize resource utilization, and manage architecture performance bottlenecks.

• Technical Leadership & Governance: Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) during client architecture reviews, providing technical guidance, design documentation, and governance frameworks.

Required Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Experience Floor: Minimum of 8–10+ years of total IT experience with 5+ years acting as a dedicated AWS Cloud Architect.

• Core AWS Stack: Hands-on mastery across core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch, and AWS Organizations.

• Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation for enterprise-scale infrastructure automation.

• Containerization: Experience designing and orchestrating container workloads using Docker, AWS ECS, or EKS.

• Domain Experience: Experience working in the Financial Services, Banking, or Asset Management sector is strongly preferred.

• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (strongly preferred/preferred).

• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to interface directly with enterprise clients and cross-functional engineering leads.