AWS Solutions Architect

Raymond James • Saint Petersburg, FL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Engineer / AWS Solutions Architect is a technical leader within the Financial Crimes Technology organization responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-native solutions on AWS. This role combines solution architecture with hands-on engineering across cloud infrastructure, application development, data engineering, and enterprise integrations. This position follows a hybrid work schedule based in St. Petersburg, FL.
This position follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation to be in the office 3 days per week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.
Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions on AWS, including cloud architecture, application development, and data engineering.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, integration, and serverless technologies (e.g., S3, Redshift, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, IAM, VPC, KMS, EMR, Athena, SageMaker, Kafka/MSK).
• Experience designing cloud-native, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures using modern software engineering principles.
• Strong experience building enterprise data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration frameworks, and data warehousing solutions utilizing Medallion Architecture.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud integration patterns, and modern software development practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of AWS security, networking, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational excellence following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, solve complex technical challenges, and mentor engineering teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business audiences.
• Lead architecture discussions and influence strategic technology decisions across multiple teams.
• Analyze complex problems and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Build collaborative relationships across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business organizations.
• Balance strategic architecture responsibilities with hands-on implementation and delivery.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional certification.
• Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS), modern analytics technologies, and streaming platforms such as Kafka or Kinesis.
• Experience in financial services, Financial Crimes, AML, fraud detection, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with third-party cloud platforms and SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions supporting enterprise Financial Crimes applications.
• Design cloud-native applications, enterprise data platforms, and integration solutions using modern microservices, serverless, event-driven, and API-based architectures.
• Develop and optimize enterprise data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration frameworks supporting analytics, reporting, and operational workloads.
• Define cloud architecture standards, security controls, networking, observability, resiliency, and operational best practices while promoting Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation.
• Collaborate with application, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of engineering best practices.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• critical illness insurance
• accident insurance
• disability benefits
• retirement savings
• paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior