AWS Solutions Architect

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions supporting enterprise Financial Crimes applications.
• Design cloud-native applications, enterprise data platforms, and integration solutions using modern microservices, serverless, event-driven, and API-based architectures.
• Develop and optimize enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration frameworks supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads.
• Define cloud architecture standards, security controls, networking, observability, resiliency, and operational best practices while promoting Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation.
• Collaborate with application, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of engineering best practices.

• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions on AWS, including cloud architecture, application development, and data engineering.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, integration, and serverless technologies (e.g., S3, Redshift, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, IAM, VPC, KMS, EMR, Athena, SageMaker, Kafka/MSK).
• Experience designing cloud-native, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures using modern software engineering principles.
• Strong experience building enterprise data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration frameworks, and data warehousing solutions utilizing Medallion Architecture.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud integration patterns, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of AWS security, networking, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational excellence following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, solve complex technical challenges, and mentor engineering teams.

Ability To

• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business audiences.
• Lead architecture discussions and influence strategic technology decisions across multiple teams.
• Analyze complex problems and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Build collaborative relationships across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business organizations.
• Balance strategic architecture responsibilities with hands-on implementation and delivery., * AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional certification.
• Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS), modern analytics technologies, and streaming platforms such as Kafka or Kinesis.
• Experience in financial services, Financial Crimes, AML, fraud detection, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with third-party cloud platforms and SaaS solutions.