Senior AWS Cloud Architect (Active TS/SCI )

Architecture Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise-scale applications and platforms deployed within AWS environments.
Define reference architectures and technical roadmaps that align customer mission objectives with AWS best practices and long-term modernization strategies.
Design and deploy AWS Landing Zones in air-gapped, classified regions, including AWS Control Tower equivalents and account-vending automation.
Serve as the technical authority for cloud-native application development, microservices adoption, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems design.
Partner with AWS architects, customer technical leadership, and program stakeholders to translate business and mission requirements into scalable, secure architectural solutions.
Drive modernization efforts by transforming legacy applications into cloud-native services utilizing containers, serverless technologies, and managed AWS services.
Establish engineering standards and architectural governance related to security, reliability, observability, performance, resiliency, and cost optimization.
Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and technical decision-making forums while documenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and design artifacts.
Define and champion DevSecOps practices, CI/CD strategies, Infrastructure-as-Code approaches, and automated testing frameworks to accelerate secure software delivery.
Architect integrations across enterprise systems, APIs, data platforms, and external mission partner environments.
Evaluate emerging technologies and AWS capabilities, developing recommendations that improve mission effectiveness, operational efficiency, and technical agility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving as a Lead Developer, Technical Lead, Solution Architect, or Software Architect on large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems on AWS.
• Experience architecting with services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, S3, SQS/SNS, and IAM.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles, security-by-design methodologies, and secure software development practices within regulated environments.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification preferred.
• Experience supporting classified, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other highly regulated environments strongly desired.