AWS Architect

We are building a team for one of the U.S. Federal Governments largest technology modernization programs underpinning the U.S. capital markets.

Built on AWS and leveraging an AI-powered software engineering platform this program offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI Agentic AI cloud technologies and AI-driven engineering.

If you are looking for technically challenging work exceptional learning and a résumé-defining opportunity with national impact I would love to connect.

Job Title: AWS Architect

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Days Remote: 3 days remote

Position Summary:

The AWS Architect is responsible for designing and governing the cloud infrastructure for a large-scale federal platform built on native AWS services. This role establishes the cloud architecture infrastructure standards and deployment strategy to deliver a secure scalable highly available and cost-effective platform. Working closely with engineering security and product teams the AWS Architect ensures the platform aligns with FedRAMP requirements AWS Well-Architected best practices and modern cloud-native design principles while supporting the integration of agentic AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and govern cloud infrastructure using native AWS services including AWS Lambda Step Functions EventBridge API Gateway Aurora Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS/EKS.
• Define and maintain infrastructure-as-code standards using AWS CDK and AWS CloudFormation.
• Design cloud infrastructure that supports FedRAMP compliance and federal security requirements.
• Lead AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives.
• Design secure networking identity security and multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Support the integration of Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI services into the cloud platform.
• Guide capacity planning scalability resiliency high availability and disaster recovery planning.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish cloud architecture standards and best practices across the platform.

Minimum Experience:

• 5 years of hands-on AWS architecture and cloud solution delivery experience.
• Experience designing and implementing high-availability high-volume cloud platforms.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code methodologies.

Mandatory Skills:

• AWS cloud architecture.
• AWS Lambda.
• AWS Step Functions.
• Amazon EventBridge.
• Amazon API Gateway.
• Amazon Aurora.
• Amazon S3.
• Amazon ECS and/or Amazon EKS.
• AWS CDK.
• AWS CloudFormation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• FedRAMP architecture and compliance.
• Cloud networking and security architecture.
• Multi-environment cloud deployment strategies.
• Capacity planning.
• High availability and resiliency design.
• Disaster recovery planning.
• Amazon Bedrock.
• Agentic AI integration.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
• U.S. work authorization.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience supporting FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments.
• Experience designing large-scale serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Experience integrating Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI technologies into enterprise cloud platforms.

Degrees and Certifications

Required

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.

Preferred

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).