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# Lead Application Architect (.NET & AWS)

- **Company:** Gainwell Technologies
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $169,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Active Directory, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Applications Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Okta, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Software Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Event Driven Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Functional Programming, Api Design, Api Gateway, Devsecops, Serverless Computing, Microservices
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/lead-application-architect-net-aws-fl--abe20a6f-c284-4777-b73e-50bdaf7da04f

## About the Role

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft .NET, Leadership, Career Development, Leading Edge Technology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft .NET, Problem Solving Skills, Technical Support, Department of Health and Human Services, * 8+ years of experience in application architecture, software engineering, or product development, with significant hands-on experience designing and architecting .NET-based enterprise applications.

 * Expert-level experience with Microsoft .NET technologies, including application architecture, API design, microservices, integration patterns, and modern software development best practices.
 * Experience designing and implementing scalable solutions on AWS, including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, and CloudFormation.
 * Strong knowledge of modern application architecture principles, including microservices, event-driven design, containerization, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), high availability, resiliency, and observability.
 * Proven ability to lead technical solution design, mentor development teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive software delivery throughout the SDLC., * AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
 * Experience with Okta, Active Directory, or other Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms
 * Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
 * Security architecture and application security experience
 * Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles

## Description

As an Lead Application Architect (.Net & AWS) at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve - a communitys most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcares biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

Your role in our mission

Take charge and focus on how we can meet critical needs to help clients deliver better health and human services outcomes.

 * Serve as the account domain expert, maintaining a 360-degree view of the account, business priorities, and technology landscape.
 * Provide technology leadership with a strong focus on cloud-native design and AWS application architecture.
 * Assess solution risks and provide recommendations to address security, resiliency, performance, and operational concerns.
 * Implement technical processes to enable solution delivery, DevOps pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
 * Drive project delivery by translating architectural vision into scalable, supportable solutions.
 * Provide consultation on non-routine technical issues and support Level 4 production needs.
 * Participate in escalation calls and help drive timely technical resolution.
 * Engage directly with clients as needed to communicate architecture decisions, solution direction, and technical recommendations.
 * Design cloud-native and hybrid application architectures.
 * Define architecture for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost optimization.
 * Lead application migration and modernization to AWS.
 * Guide adoption of AWS best practices, reference architectures, and Well-Architected principles.
 * Partner with security teams to implement IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance controls.
 * Support production reliability, troubleshooting, and architecture governance.
 * Work with development teams on containerization, serverless, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
 * Participate in architecture review boards.