AWS Solution Architect

Solution Architect-Aws
Location- Initial remote, onsite in VA after few months

About the Role:
Solutions Architect will define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for an application. This role is responsible for developing scalable, cost-effective, and secure cloud solutions by leveraging AWS services and strategic planning. The ideal candidate will not only excel in hands-on architecture using AWS but also possess deep business and domain expertise to guide long-term technology roadmaps. The candidate would also serve as part of an agile team contributing toward the team s development roadmap.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Oversight & Collaboration:
Oversee one or more applications, contributing to architecture guidelines and development approaches.

Define and execute a forward-thinking cloud strategy that supports both current needs and future growth.

Design, develop, and maintain robust cloud architectures integrating a broad range of AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL, SQS, OpenSearch, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.

Leverage both business and domain expertise to develop scalable solutions

Provide leadership to cross-functional teams by establishing architectural standards, best practices, and a strategic vision for technology initiatives.

Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and developers to ensure that technology strategies align with broader business objectives.

Mentor and guide team members in adopting strategic thinking in design, development, and deployment practices.

Solution Design & Documentation:
Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives

Develop and maintain architectural documentation to support new business features and capabilities.

System Integration & Optimization:
Optimize system performance, cost, and scalability while ensuring operational excellence across AWS services

3 / 5
Actively advocate and direct the automation and continued delivery software release methodology to ensure that software is always releasable, of high quality and stable through appropriate design guidelines and investment advocacy.

Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to subsystems, understand solution deployment, and communicate requirements for interactions with solution context

Work with portfolio stakeholders, notably the Enterprise Architect, to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of large projects.

Plan and develop architectural documentation in support of new business Features and Capabilities

Risk Management & Compliance:
Support technology/engineering aspects of the Agile development process

Identify potential technical risks and develop proactive strategies to mitigate them.

Ensure that architectural solutions meet all security standards, compliance requirements, and industry best practices by integrating AWS IAM, CloudTrail, and other security tools.

Required Knowledge:
1. Domain Knowledge:

Foundational understanding of the Healthcare and Technology industries.

2. Technical Expertise:

Advanced proficiency in application development platforms (.NET, Java/J2EE) with strong programming experience in C#, .NET, Java, and Python.

Foundational understanding of Healthcare and Technology industries.

Deep hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL, SQS, OpenSearch, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail

Demonstrated experience with typical AWS architecture patterns such as serverless architectures, microservices, event-driven designs, and containerization.

Exposure to multi-cloud environments (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.

3. Security:

Strong knowledge of security as it relates to cloud-based infrastructure.

Strong knowledge in current security threats, trends and mitigation approaches.

Required Skills:
Ability to influence change and direction within a team and organization

4 / 5
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Flexible, ability to deal with change

Learning agility, able to learn quickly and apply concepts to development

Strong team player

Strong communication skills

Required Experience:
10-12 years of experience in software development involving Microsoft .NET or Java/J2EE, Python with strong programming skills.

6 or more years experience architecting and developing cloud software systems as a solutions or software architect.

Demonstrated success in designing, deploying, and scaling cloud-native applications and enterprise solutions.

Experience working with relational database systems like Amazon Aurora and NoSQL databases

Strong experience with IT best practices, including development lifecycle, configuration management, deployment of new versions of applications, implementation planning, troubleshooting, monitoring, and support.

Strong experience with memory management, dynamic memory allocation, pointers, compile-time, load-time, run-time and interpreters.

Strong experience with data structures (e.g., linked lists, stacks, queues, tables, hash tables sorting, and searching. trees, and graphs); infinite data structures such as streams; data types including recursive and polymorphic types

Preferred Experience:
Strong experience dealing with security architecture components within a PKI such as Certificate Authorities, Registration Authorities, digital certificates, public/private key pairs etc. is highly desirable

Required Education:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent work experience

Desired Certification:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Security Roles and Responsibilities:

5 / 5

Centauri s employees are granted access to information resources in order to facilitate their responsibilities. All employees must understand and agree to their Information security roles and responsibilities before accessing any of Centauri s information systems. It is the responsibility of every employee to ensure the safety and confidentiality of data and systems by adhering to the organizations information security policies and immediately reporting any possible security violations. All employees are required to read, understand, and agree to abide by Centauri s corporate security policies. Centauri s employees must only access data they are authorized to access. Depending on role designation, employees may be required to take additional role based information security training. In addition, employees must successfully complete annual security and compliance re training. Employees will be held accountable for violations to the security policies.