AWS Architect, Global Banking & Markets, Cloud Platform

Goldman Sachs•Dallas, TX

About The Position

Within our Global Banking & Markets business, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services as well as establishing infrastructure management best practices. You will be working as part of a global, multidisciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting, and building cutting-edge tools and systems. We are at an early stage of modernizing our application stacks around cloud native principles and migrating business workloads to the cloud. You will play a pivotal role in influencing technology strategies that will give the firm a competitive edge.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant technical experience, including at least 5 years hands-on experience with AWS.
Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
Expertise in one or more architecture disciplines.
Demonstrated experience influencing across functions and teams to deliver modern architecture.
Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex architecture problems across various technical disciplines.
Extensive practical cloud native experience.
Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to achieve the future state architecture.
Deep expertise across Infrastructure Architecture areas, including IT Service Management, Monitoring and Observability, Cloud Compute and Storage, Application Integration, and IT Asset Management, Network and Systems Administration.
Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment across architecture workflows, including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity.
Excellent communication; willingness to learn; proactive mindset with focus on continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in finance industry.
Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud operational models, including resilience, identity, secrets, networking, and secure operations.
Expertise in operational automation, event intelligence, and self-healing workflows integrated with ticketing and incident processes.
Experience with enterprise CMDB and asset intelligence programs that improve control compliance and cost transparency.
Familiarity with financial-services regulatory and control frameworks for operational resilience and auditability.

Responsibilities

Advise and lead architecture strategy of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio.
Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state architecture.
Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies.
Establish and lead an architecture governance body.
Create durable, reusable software frameworks that improve velocity and quality of output across teams and functions.
Partner across domains to reduce tooling duplication, clarify ownership, and maintain authoritative technology status and lifecycle governance.
Improve decision traceability, cost-performance outcomes, and review-board effectiveness through clear standards, metrics, and architectural guardrails.
Evaluate emerging capabilities for enterprise fit and adoption readiness.
Establish portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows used in architecture and engineering governance, including traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and security standards.