AWS Technical / Cloud Architect

Charlotte, NC / Jersey City,NJ - Onsite Full-time Job Description AWS Technical / Cloud Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch, Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Rest API, microservices, Kafka, Cloud, Kubernetes.

Agile concepts, CI/CD with Payments exposer like ISO, Fed wire, Swift, MT message Knowledge

Roles & Responsibilities

10+ years of experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch

Involved in Enterprise cloud architecture and solution design

Hands on in Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.1+,Angular 22, Python/Node.js

Microservices and event-driven architecture, Oracle Database and cloud database migration,JBoss Application Server

OpenShift Platform and legacy VM-based deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation

CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps

REST APIs and enterprise integration patterns

Kafka, MQ, and enterprise messaging platforms

AWS security, IAM, VPC, networking, encryption, secrets management, and compliance

Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana

Application modernization and cloud migration patterns

Cloud performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization

DevSecOps, platform engineering, and automated deployment practices

Lead the discovery and assessment of applications deployed across legacy VM-based infrastructure and OpenShift environments.

Analyze the application inventory, current architecture, technology stack, infrastructure footprint, business criticality, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.

Map application dependencies, data flows, interfaces, APIs, messaging platforms, and upstream and downstream integrations.

Assess application, infrastructure, database, security, compliance, and operational readiness for migration to AWS.

Categorize applications based on business criticality, cloud readiness, migration complexity, dependencies, risks, and modernization requirements.

Evaluate legacy and OpenShift-based applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, or re-architect migration strategies.

Define target-state AWS architecture covering landing zone, networking, compute, containers, databases, integrations, security, observability, backup, and disaster recovery.

Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containers, serverless technologies, and suitable AWS-ma naged services.

Develop application modernization strategies, including application decomposition, API enablement, containerization, and migration from legacy technologies.

Define Oracle database and data-migration strategies covering sequencing, validation, reconciliation, cutover, data integrity, and rollback requirements.

Develop application migration waves, dependency-based sequencing, implementation roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.

Establish cloud security, IAM, encryption, network security, governance, compliance controls, architecture guardrails, and risk-mitigation recommendations.

Define DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, security scanning, release management, monitoring, and platform-operations models.

Prepare high-level estimates for assessment, migration, modernization, testing, deployment, transition, cloud costs, and resource requirements.

Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, proposal development, executive presentations, stakeholder collaboration, and technical mentoring across onshore and offshore teams.