AWS Cloud Architect (w/Pega)

Role: AWS Cloud Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months CTH

Candidates must reside in one of the following states : Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois (excluding Chicago), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York (excluding New York City), North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, or Washington.

Conversion Salary: Please ask candidates for their desired conversion salary.

Overview

The Cloud Architect establishes and maintains client AWS cloud environment to ensure security, scalability, operational resilience, and streamlined design across SaaS product architectures. This role provides architectural leadership, participates in governance activities, ensures alignment with AWS best practices, and collaborates with engineering, product, security, and cloud operations teams. The Cloud Architect translates complex requirements into actionable designs while promoting innovation, cost efficiency, and technical excellence across the enterprise.

Required Experience

10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, or solution architecture.

6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native commercial SaaS products.

6+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems and enterprise cloud solutions.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT CANDIDATES THAT DO NOT HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

This is not an engineer role; this is an AWS Cloud Architect role.

Core Technical Requirements. Experience in: Cloud governance frameworks and operating models. Establishing cloud architecture standards and reference architectures. SaaS platform architecture at enterprise scale. Cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices

Deep AWS experience (not surface-level) – strong understanding of building and operating SaaS products natively in AWS

Proven experience in cloud-native (Greenfield) development – NOT lift-and-shift migrations

Strong background in modernizing legacy systems (e.g., monolith to microservices using the strangler pattern )

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

Experience designing robust, resilient, and highly available systems , especially in regulated environments (healthcare preferred)

Hands-on experience establishing:

Cloud governance frameworks

Security policies

Best practices/standards across teams

Ability to host and operate solutions in customer-owned AWS accounts (multi-account strategy)

Infrastructure & Automation

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

Proven ability to review and validate IaC code before deployment (governance mindset)

Experience with policy-as-code and automated compliance tools

Preferred: Cloud Custodian (used at NASCO)

Familiar with automation-driven policy verification and enforcement

Engineering Practices

Experience in peer review processes (code reviews, architecture reviews)

Ability to work in environments with:

Large, complex enterprise projects

Strong technical opinions / cross-functional stakeholders

Comfortable influencing and collaborating with multiple architects (matrixed environment)

Operating Environment

Experience in commercial software / product-based organizations (not just internal IT)

Familiarity with SaaS delivery models

Comfortable working across architecture + platform engineering + program layers

Organizational Context

Ability to work closely with:

Architecture teams (8+ architects)

Cloud platform engineers

Program management

Role requires flexibility to support multiple architects and initiatives simultaneously

Required Certification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification or equivalent.