Cloud, Digital Experience (DX), and AI Architecture Lead- Need on our W2

Job Description: Cloud Digital Experience (DX) and AI Architecture Lead- Need on our W2

Mandatory Areas
Employment Type - W2 candidates only
Client Location - Norfolk VA- 3 Days Onsite

Must Have Skills
Skill 1 - AWS Cloud Architecture (VPC EC2 EKS/ECS S3 IAM RDS networking security)
Skill 2 - Hybrid Cloud & Network Design (VPC segmentation routing firewall private connectivity)
Skill 3 - Digital Experience (DX) Architecture (Web Mobile API Integration platforms)
Skill 4 - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation) & CI/CD pipelines
Skill 5 - AI/ML Architecture on AWS (model deployment inference endpoints data ingestion)
Skill 6 - DevOps & MLOps (automation environment patterns model lifecycle management)
Skill 7 - Security & Compliance (IAM least privilege secure APIs data protection)
Skill 8 - Observability & Operations (monitoring logging availability incident response model drift)

Domain Experience (If any)
Enterprise Digital Platforms
Cloud Transformation & Modernization
AI enabled Customer Experience / Intelligent Automation

Must Have Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional (Mandatory)
AWS Certified Security or Machine Learning - Specialty (Preferred)

Job Description: Cloud Digital Experience (DX) and AI Architecture Lead
Role Overview
Design implement and govern targetstate AWS cloud hybrid and AIenabled architectures for enterprise and Digital Experience (DX) applications. This role provides endtoend architectural leadership across cloud infrastructure DX platforms and AI/ML capabilities ensuring secure scalable resilient and costeffective solutions aligned with business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Solution Design

Design and maintain targetstate AWS cloud hybrid and AIenabled architectures for enterprise and Digital Experience (DX) applications encompassing network compute storage IAM monitoring AI/ML services and Dev/Test/Prod environment patterns.
Define endtoend Digital Experience (DX) solution architectures including web mobile API integration and AI/ML augmentation layers such as personalization recommendations intelligent search and conversational interfaces (chatbots).
Ensure architectures meet scalability performance resiliency availability and user experience requirements.

Network & Connectivity

Design AWS VPC architectures including subnet segmentation IP addressing routing firewall rules and private connectivity.
Support secure hybrid connectivity DX platform integrations and AI/ML workloads including data ingestion pipelines realtime inference and decisioning services.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Develop and standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Enable repeatable governed deployments for:

Cloud onboarding
DX application delivery
AI/ML platform components (model deployment inference endpoints feature services)



Governance Security & Compliance

Produce required architecture and onboarding artifacts including:

Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) intake
Information Security intake
Data governance alignment
DevOps and MLOps readiness
Operational readiness documentation


Embed security by design across AWS DX and AI/ML solutions including:

IAM role and policy design
Authentication and authorization models
Leastprivilege access
Secure API design
Data protection for training and inference datasets
Model access controls and sensitive data handling

Required Skills:

AWS Cloud ArchitectureDigital Experience DX