AWS Solutions Architect

Global Staffing & Talent Solutions • Albany, NY

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About The Position

ECLARO is seeking an AWS Solutions Architect for a client in Albany, New York, to lead the architecture and technical design of secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable AWS applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads in a large-scale, complex environment. The role translates approved business and technical requirements into AWS architectures and implementation specifications, and establishes design approaches for integrations, identity, security, governance, resiliency, operations, and cost control.

The architect provides technical leadership to AWS data engineering and DevOps/CloudOps resources, reviews designs and implementation work from vendors and system integrators, and supports solutions from proof of concept through build, testing, deployment, optimization, and operational transition. The role also develops reusable architecture patterns, standards, documentation, and implementation guidance, applying AWS Well-Architected principles throughout.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of related experience.
• At least 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production AWS solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security, serverless, integration, data, monitoring, and governance services.
• Experience designing secure REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations using authentication and authorization standards such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens.
• Experience with AWS identity and access management, virtual private cloud design, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and multi-account governance.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated delivery using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, observability, security, and cloud cost-management practices.
• Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and technical specifications and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading technical teams and reviewing work performed by vendors, subcontractors, or system integrators.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect certification; professional-level certification is a significant plus.
• Experience establishing enterprise AWS landing zones, multi-account environments, governance controls, and reusable platform patterns.
• Experience integrating enterprise SaaS, electronic health record, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting public-sector, healthcare, Medicaid, or other regulated environments, including sensitive or protected data.
• Experience developing production backend services.
• Additional AWS security, networking, DevOps, or data-focused certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical design for AWS applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads.
• Translate approved business and technical requirements into detailed AWS architectures and implementation specifications in collaboration with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Design API-based, event-driven, scheduled, and other integration patterns across AWS services, OPWDD/ITS systems, SaaS platforms, vendor solutions, and authorized data sources.
• Define service selection, data flows, network and account topology, identity and access models, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and cost-control approaches.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, templates, and implementation guidance.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to AWS data engineering and DevOps/CloudOps resources; conduct design reviews, resolve technical blockers, and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
• Review vendor and system integrator designs and implementation work for alignment with OPWDD/ITS architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.
• Support proofs of concept, solution build, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and transition to operations.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision records, interface documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Benefits

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch.
• Commuter Check pretax commuter benefits.
• Eligibility to purchase medical, dental, and vision insurance through ECLARO.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed