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Role: AWS Tech Architect (On-site)
Location: Chicago, IL(Need Locals only)
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable, highly available solutions using multi-tier and multi-platform approaches, incorporating event-driven patterns and message queues to support real-time data flows
- Apply SOLID principles and cloud-native design patterns to deliver modular, maintainable, and extensible architectures that stand up to enterprise demands
- Serve as technical leader and architectural authority across the full solution lifecycle — translating business requirements into sound technical direction and guiding engineering teams through delivery
- Engage with a broad set of stakeholders — including security, risk, cloud engineering, and compliance teams — to ensure solutions align with governance controls, encryption standards, operational resilience requirements, and audit readiness
- Produce high-quality architecture artifacts including Use Case, Sequence, and Solution Architecture diagrams, leveraging the Well-Architected Framework and internal governance templates covering security controls, threat models, and data flows
- Partner with enterprise architects and security teams to validate that designs meet organizational standards end to end
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineering teams throughout the engagement lifecycle
- Contribute to continuous improvement of architectural standards, design patterns, and technical best practices
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and operational resilience requirements throughout the architecture lifecycle
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, quickly ramping up on new engagements and delivering architectural value with minimal supervision
Must-Have Skills:
- Proven experience architecting enterprise solutions across complex, distributed, multi-platform environments
- Strong command of event-driven architecture, cloud-native design patterns, and SOLID engineering principles
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, governance-aligned architecture documentation including Use Case, Sequence, and Solution Architecture diagrams
- Deep expertise in multi-tier and multi-platform solution design with a focus on scalability, security, and high availability
- Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as the Well-Architected Framework
- Experience collaborating with security, risk, cloud engineering, and compliance teams to meet governance and audit standards
- Experience working across the full solution delivery lifecycle, from requirements through production
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (technical and non-technical audiences)
- Strong ability to challenge assumptions, manage competing priorities, and drive technical consensus across stakeholder groups
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced enterprise environment
- Wealth Management experience in a banking or investment context
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Hands-on experience with ArchiMate Modelling Language for Enterprise Architecture
- Knowledge of AI and cloud technologies and their application in enterprise contexts
- miliarity with threat modeling, data flow diagrams, and security control documentation
- Prior consulting or contract-based delivery experience in large enterprise environments
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and cloud-native deployment patterns
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or enterprise architecture frameworks
- Experience delivering solutions in regulated industries such as financial services, government, or healthcare