Experienced Application Architect
$95,100–$135,800 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Experienced Application Architect at Gainwell leading cloud-native AWS solutions, guiding architecture decisions, migration and modernization to AWS, and ensuring security, resiliency, performance, and cost optimization. Roles include providing technology leadership, defining scalable architectures, enabling DevOps pipelines and infrastructure automation, engaging with clients to communicate architecture directions, and mentoring development teams in containerization, serverless, APIs, and event-driven designs. Emphasis on IAM/security controls, Well-Architected adherence, architecture-review participation, and collaboration with security teams to enable reliable production systems. Fully remote opportunity within the U.S. with minimal travel and a comprehensive benefits package.
Required Qualifications
- Eight or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
- Experience with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and Well-Architected principles
- Experience designing solutions on AWS
- Knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
- Experience with microservices, serverless architectures, event-driven design, container platforms, and integration patterns
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring/observability, cost optimization, high availability/disaster recovery
- Understanding of application design principles and configurations
- Familiarity with programming languages, operating systems, hardware, and software
- Experience with SDLC and client requirements
- Leadership skills to mentor others
- Strong communication skills
- Preferred: Active Directory restructuring, ADO, Security experience
- Preferred: Okta or other IAM experience
- Mandatory: .NET development experience
- Preferred Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
Additional Requirements
- No explicit visa or citizenship requirements stated
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