AWS Architect

Job Title: AWS Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

Experience Required: 10+ Years

Job Description:

Bank of America is seeking an experienced AWS Architect to lead the design, development, and modernization of enterprise-scale cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS cloud technologies along with hands-on experience supporting and migrating applications running on J2EE application servers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud architectures.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from on-premise environments to AWS.
• Architect and optimize solutions involving J2EE-based enterprise applications.
• Define cloud best practices, security standards, and governance frameworks.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.
• Evaluate existing systems and recommend improvements for performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Support CI/CD implementation and infrastructure automation initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to development and engineering teams.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong architecture and design expertise.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
• Strong background in J2EE application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, or Tomcat.
• Experience with application migration, modernization, and cloud transformation projects.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud governance.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices.