Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Engage in hands-on development across the complete cloud technology stack.

• Make strategic architectural decisions while acting as the main technical liaison for clients and U.S. FinTech leadership.

• Deliver scalable and secure securitization platforms while upholding high engineering standards.

• Construct highly scalable distributed solutions.

• Develop features and infrastructure to meet emerging business and project needs.

• Design and implement APIs, data models, and communication protocols.

• Engineer cloud infrastructure to enhance application security, performance, uptime, and scalability.

• Assess technology challenges related to cloud infrastructure, resiliency, performance, vulnerability management, technology lifecycle, observability, automation, and emerging technologies.

• Modernize Technology Governance through automation, data analytics, and AI.

• Establish governance frameworks for emerging technologies, including AI.

• Maintain code quality and adhere to application design standards.

• Drive technical direction and make platform architecture decisions.

• Lead technical design discussions and promote engineering best practices.

• Identify defects and enhance code quality.

• Develop executive business cases for large-scale, long-term enhancements.

• Act as the final line of technical support and escalation.

• Primarily work with Java, SQL, TypeScript, React, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS.

• Design and implement SQL, GraphQL APIs, and AWS serverless architecture.

• Create infrastructure-as-code utilizing AWS CDK and SAM.

• Leverage AI tools to facilitate development and product enablement.

• Participate in agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment.

• Provide strategic oversight of budget and resource planning.

• Build relationships with stakeholders and support the successful delivery of initiatives.

• Represent the engineering team to client organizations and U.S. FinTech leadership.

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Collaborate with product, design, and operations teams.

• Ensure business continuity and maintain customer satisfaction.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• At least 10 years of experience in developing large-scale software applications.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an AWS environment.

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

• Experience in creating infrastructure-as-code (preferably AWS CDK/SAM).

• Experience in building web applications (experience with React is a plus).

• Experience in designing and developing relational database transactional applications.

• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs (GraphQL experience is a plus).

• Strong knowledge of Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.

• Experience with AWS serverless architecture and cloud infrastructure.

• Familiarity with AI development tools (e.g., Amazon Q Developer/Kiro) and AI services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock).

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.

• Experience in unit and integration testing.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Proven ability to mentor and nurture engineering talent.

• Experience with agile development methodologies.

• Comprehensive understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies.

• Successful completion of a background investigation, which may also include a credit check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance bonus.

• 401k match.

• Healthcare coverage.

• PTO.

• A wide range of additional benefits.