A financial firm is looking for an AWS Cloud Architect to join their team in New York, NY.

Pay: $90/hr

L2 clearance needed
Hybrid 2x/week - one day must be Tue or Wed

Responsibilities:
Solution Design:
- Design optimum solution for migrating on premise applications to AWS cloud
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical solutions.
- Ensure best practices are followed in the design, development, and deployment of applications to AWS.

Team Collaboration & Leadership:
- Work closely with developers, administrators, and other IT teams to ensure cohesive and efficient development processes.

Stakeholder Engagement:
- Engage with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their needs and provide technical solutions.
- Present architectural solutions to stakeholders.

Compliance & Security:
- Ensure that solutions comply with industry and bank standards and security policies.

Continuous Improvement:
- Stay current with industry trends and advancements in integration related technologies.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and recommend innovative solutions to enhance platform capabilities.

Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10 years of experience in IT, with at least 5 years of experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role.
Technical Skills:
- In-depth knowledge of mainstream architectures, and technologies in an AWS environment – more specifically, AWS services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda. VPC and ELB.
- Detailed and low-level knowledge, experience, and understanding of security and integration patterns, and protocols including REST API, Messaging, Basic Auth, OAUTH, SAML, OIDC.
- Ability to produce actionable technical design documents for critical and complex scoped items collaborating with developers.
- Must have broad understanding of enterprise integration and able to influence the right solution approach taking all stakeholder viewpoints.

Professional Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams.

Preferred:
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile development environments.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.

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