AWS Solution Architect- Financial Services

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities1. Cloud Architecture & Strategy

• Design and implement
• secure, scalable, and highly available AWS architectures
• aligned with enterprise standards.
• Build and manage
• multi-account AWS environments
• using AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Develop
• landing zone architectures
• including identity, networking, logging, and governance layers.
• Produce detailed
• solution documents, architecture diagrams, and technical standards
• .

2. Security & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure solutions meet strict
• financial and regulatory requirements
• such as:

• Pci-Dss, Iso 27001, Soc2

• Data residency and privacy regulations
• Implement
• end-to-end cloud security controls
• including:
• IAM roles, policies, and least privilege access
• Encryption (KMS, TLS, at-rest and in-transit)
• Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
• Perform
• threat modeling, risk analysis, and security reviews
• **Support audits and ensure compliance reporting readiness**

3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Lead the development of
• Infrastructure as Code
• using:
• Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
• Ensure all infrastructure is
• fully automated, version-controlled, and reproducible
• **Define and enforce IaC modularization and reusability standards**
• **Integrate IaC pipelines into CI/CD workflows**

4. Application Modernization & Cloud-Native Design

• Architect modern cloud-native solutions using:
• **Containers (ECS, EKS)**
• **Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway)**
• **Guide migration of legacy systems to microservices architecture**
• **Enable event-driven architectures**

5. Data Architecture & Integration

• Design scalable and secure
• data architectures
• using:

• Amazon S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift

• Implement
• data governance, encryption, and lifecycle policies
• **Enable secure integrations using:**
• **APIs (API Gateway, PrivateLink)**
• **Messaging and streaming services**

6. Networking & Hybrid Cloud

• Architect secure AWS networking solutions including:
• VPC design (multi-AZ, subnet segmentation)
• Route tables, NAT gateways, Internet gateways
• Implement hybrid connectivity using:
• **AWS Direct Connect or Site-to-Site VPN**
• **Establish network security controls**
• , firewalls, and segmentation strategies

7. Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Design and implement
• monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks
• using:

• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config

• Define

SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

• for critical systems
• Architect
• high availability and fault-tolerant systems
• across AZs/regions
• Develop and test

Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies

8. Cost Optimization (FinOps)

• Implement
• cost governance and optimization strategies
• **Analyze cloud usage and optimize:**
• **Compute, storage, and data transfer costs**
• **Use tools like:**
• **AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor**

9. DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

• Establish and guide best practices for CI/CD pipelines using:

• AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Enable
• automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies
• **Promote DevSecOps principles**
• across teams

10. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with product, engineering, security, and business stakeholders
• Translate complex business requirements into
• technical cloud solutions
• **Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and governance**
• **Lead architecture review boards and design discussions**

Technical Expertise

• **8+ years**
• of IT experience, with
• 4+ years in AWS architecture
• **Strong expertise in:**
• **AWS core services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, API Gateway**
• **Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)**
• **Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK**
• **Strong understanding of:**
• **High availability, scalability, and fault tolerance**
• **Network architecture and cloud security**

Financial Services Experience

• Proven experience in
• banking, fintech, or regulated industries
• **Strong knowledge of:**
• **Compliance frameworks and audit processes**
• **Data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements**

DevOps & Automation

• Experience building and managing
• CI/CD pipelines
• **Proficiency in scripting languages:**
• **Python, Bash**
• **Familiarity with automation and DevSecOps practices**

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to influence and guide technical decision-making
• Experience working in large, complex organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (highly preferred)
• AWS Security Specialty or DevOps Engineer
• Experience with:
• Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategies
• AI/ML services such as Amazon SageMaker or Bedrock
• Advanced security tooling (WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub)

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on
• enterprise-scale, mission-critical banking platforms
• **Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies and architecture patterns**
• **A collaborative, high-performance engineering environment**
• **Competitive compensation and benefits**