AWS Solutions Engineer/ Architect

**This position follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation to be in the office 3 days per week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.** **_Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future._** **Responsibilities** + Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions supporting enterprise Financial Crimes applications. + Design cloud-native applications, enterprise data platforms, and integration solutions using modern microservices, serverless, event-driven, and API-based architectures. + Develop and optimize enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration frameworks supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads. + Define cloud architecture standards, security controls, networking, observability, resiliency, and operational best practices while promoting Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation. + Collaborate with application, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. + Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of engineering best practices. **Required Skills & Qualifications** + Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions on AWS, including cloud architecture, application development, and data engineering. + Strong knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, integration, and serverless technologies (e.g., S3, Redshift, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, IAM, VPC, KMS, EMR, Athena, SageMaker, Kafka/MSK). + Experience designing cloud-native, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures using modern software engineering principles. + Strong experience building enterprise data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration frameworks, and data warehousing solutions utilizing Medallion Architecture. + Proficiency in Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud integration patterns, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. + Strong understanding of AWS security, networking, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational excellence following the AWS Well-Architected Framework. + Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, solve complex technical challenges, and mentor engineering teams. **Ability To** + Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business audiences. + Lead architecture discussions and influence strategic technology decisions across multiple teams. + Analyze complex problems and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions. + Build collaborative relationships across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business organizations. + Balance strategic architecture responsibilities with hands-on implementation and delivery. **Preferred Qualifications** + AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional certification. + Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS), modern analytics technologies, and streaming platforms such as Kafka or Kinesis. + Experience in financial services, Financial Crimes, AML, fraud detection, or other highly regulated environments. + Experience integrating enterprise applications with third-party cloud platforms and SaaS solutions.