Job Duties:
- Lead the architecture and technical design of secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable AWS-based applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads.
- Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate approved business and technical requirements into detailed AWS architectures and implementation specifications.
- Design API-based, event-driven, scheduled, and other integration patterns among AWS services, OPWDD/ITS systems, software-as-a-service platforms, vendor solutions, and authorized data sources.
- Define service selection, data flows, network and account topology, identity and access models, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and cost-control approaches.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, templates, and implementation guidance for current and future AWS initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to AWS data engineering and DevOps/CloudOps resources, conduct design reviews, resolve technical blockers, and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
- Review AWS-related designs and implementation work performed by vendors and system integrators to promote alignment with OPWDD/ITS architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.
- Support proofs of concept, solution build, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and transition to operations.
- Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision records, interface documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production AWS solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security, serverless, integration, data, monitoring, and governance services.
- Experience designing secure REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations using authentication and authorization standards such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens.
- Experience with AWS identity and access management, virtual private cloud design, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and multi-account governance.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, observability, security, and cloud cost-management practices.
- Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and technical specifications and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading technical teams and reviewing the work of vendors, subcontractors, or system integrators.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree.
- A minimum of 10+ years of related experience.
- A minimum of 2+ years of supervisory experience.
Preferred Credentials/Certifications:
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is strongly preferred; professional-level certification is a significant plus.
- Experience establishing enterprise AWS landing zones, multi-account environments, governance controls, and reusable platform patterns.
- Experience integrating enterprise SaaS, electronic health record, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platforms.
- Experience supporting public-sector, healthcare, Medicaid, or other regulated environments, including sensitive or protected data.
- Experience developing production backend services and additional AWS security, networking, DevOps, or data-focused certifications are a plus.
Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.
All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
Medical, dental, vision health benefits
Life Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)
401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.
Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).
