AWS Solutions Architect - Data Technologies (Financial Services)

Slalom • Charlotte, NC

39d

About The Position

We are seeking a versatile AWS Solutions Architect to support financial services customer in designing and delivering data-centric solutions on AWS. This role blends strategic planning with tactical execution, requiring deep technical expertise, stakeholder engagement, and architectural leadership. The internal leveling will be Senior Consultant or Principal.

Requirements

• 8+ years of cloud architecture experience, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements and drive customer success.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services and integration tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Minimum certification requirement: AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or AWS Data Engineer - Associate
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark.
• Experience with GitHub, JIRA, and Confluence for source control, issue tracking, and documentation.
• Understanding of security and compliance frameworks relevant to financial services.
• Expertise in AWS data and integration services including: Athena, Glue, Lake Formation, Lambda, S3, SageMaker Unified Studio, Airflow, , API Gateway, SNS, SQS, VPC, IAM
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and pipeline optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and serverless design patterns
• Familiarity with Snowflake and PostgreSQL for querying and integration purposes.
• Experience with data catalogs and data lineage tools and practices to support governance and traceability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services or regulated industries is a plus.
• DataZone, Bedrock is a plus

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective data solutions using AWS services.
• Lead customer engagements to understand business needs and translate them into actionable technical designs and implementations.
• Provide hands-on development and prototyping using AWS-native tools and services.
• Guide and mentor technical teams, ensuring alignment with best practices and architectural standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, platform engineering, application development teams, information security (infosec), and release management to ensure solution delivery.
• Configure and support shared platform services to enable consistent, scalable capabilities across domains.
• Develop and promote reusable implementation patterns for adoption by development teams to accelerate delivery and ensure architectural consistency.

Benefits

• Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includeâ meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability.
• We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees