Senior AWS Solution Architect
Quick Summary
8+ years of software engineering experience. At least 4 years of experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS. Demonstrated experience as a hands-on architect embedded within delivery teams.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Design end-to-end AWS architectures for customer-facing and customer-support applications, balancing scalability, resilience, security, performance, and cost.
- →Build proofs of concept, prototypes, and reference implementations.
- →Contribute production-quality code for foundational components, integrations, and infrastructure when needed.
- →Design and implement serverless, microservices, and event-driven solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.
- →Define API contracts and integration patterns across digital channels, backend platforms, and third-party systems.
- →Establish synchronous, asynchronous, pub/sub, and queue-based integration approaches.
- →Review code and technical designs, validate engineering decisions, and guide development teams through implementation.
- →Troubleshoot complex technical issues across applications, integrations, infrastructure, and production environments.
- →Apply AWS security and IAM best practices, including least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, identity management, and secure network design.
- →Define and support CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code to enable automated, repeatable, and secure deployments.
- →Design logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting capabilities.
- →Support production incident analysis and continuous improvements related to availability, performance, and operational resilience.
- →Present architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including international engineering and business teams.
- →Create and maintain clear, practical architecture documentation.
- →Collaborate within cross-functional Agile teams that include Product Owners, developers, QA professionals, and DevOps engineers
Requirements
~1 min read-
8+ years of software engineering experience.
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At least 4 years of experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS.
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Demonstrated experience as a hands-on architect embedded within delivery teams.
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Proven ability to take technical solutions from initial design through implementation and production deployment.
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Experience designing highly available, resilient, and scalable customer-facing applications.
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Ability to read, review, and write production-quality code
AWS Architecture
- Deep knowledge of core AWS services, including:
- Compute
- Storage
- VPC networking
- Databases
- Messaging services
- Experience applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Experience designing Multi-AZ, high-availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
Serverless, APIs, and Microservices
- Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda.
- Experience with Amazon API Gateway, including REST and HTTP APIs.
- Strong knowledge of serverless architecture patterns and trade-offs, including cold starts, concurrency, timeouts, and cost.
- Experience designing microservices and REST APIs.
- Experience defining API contracts and scalable integration patterns.
Integration and Event-Driven Architecture
- Hands-on experience with Amazon EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
- Experience using AWS Step Functions for orchestration.
- Strong understanding of the following integration patterns:
- Publish/subscribe
- Queue-based decoupling
- Retries
- Idempotency
- Dead-letter handling
- Synchronous and asynchronous integrations.
Security and Identity
- Experience designing IAM policies and roles using least-privilege principles.
- Experience with Amazon Cognito or equivalent identity solutions.
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- Experience with AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS WAF.
- Knowledge of encryption, secrets management, and secure network design.
Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using at least one of the following:
- AWS CDK
- AWS CloudFormation
- Terraform
- Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- AWS CodePipeline
- Experience with Git-based workflows and automated testing practices.
Containers and Observability
- Experience with Docker and containerized workloads.
- Experience with Amazon ECS or AWS Fargate.
- Experience with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.
- Familiarity with one or more observability tools, such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or Kibana.
Programming
Hands-on proficiency in at least one of the following:
- TypeScript or Node.js
- Python
- Java
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NTT DATA is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. NTT DATA is an Equal Opportunity Employer Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran and a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Req ID: 1347
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Who can apply
- North America
- Posted
- 21 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 24, 2026
- First seen
- September 24, 2026
- Last seen
- October 16, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 21
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 30%
- Scored at
- October 16, 2026
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