AWS Solutions Architect

Overview

AWS Solutions Architect - Banking & Financial Services

Location:

New York, NY, USA
Workplace Type:
Hybrid

We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, implement, and govern secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions for banking and financial services applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS architecture, MLOps, Generative AI, regulatory compliance, and enterprise integration. You will work closely with business, risk, security, and engineering teams to enable cloud adoption and AI/ML innovation while meeting stringent banking regulations and industry standards.

This role requires a deep understanding of cloud security best practices, financial industry regulations, and experience in architecting complex solutions that meet stringent compliance requirements. The successful candidate will be a hands-on architect, capable of designing and implementing solutions, as well as providing guidance and mentorship to other team members. You will be responsible for ensuring that our cloud solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant with all relevant regulations.

• Design and architect secure, scalable AWS solutions for core banking, digital banking, payments, risk management, fraud detection, and analytics platforms
• Translate business, regulatory, and security requirements into compliant cloud architectures ensuring adherence to PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR, SOC 2, Basel III, and local financial regulations
• Architect secure network foundations using Amazon VPC (subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, NAT Gateways, VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway) and implement least-privilege access using IAM, IAM Identity Center, and IAM Access Analyzer
• Implement encryption and secrets management strategies using AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and Certificate Manager for data protection at rest and in transit
• Design end-to-end MLOps pipelines using Amazon Sage Maker (Pipelines, Model Registry, Projects, Feature Store, Clarify, Model Monitor) for automated model training, deployment, bias detection, and monitoring
• Architect Generative AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock (foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Cohere, AI21 Labs, Stability AI), Bedrock Guardrails for content filtering and hallucination prevention, Bedrock Knowledge Bases for RAG implementations, and Bedrock Agents for task automation
• Design intelligent search and retrieval systems using Amazon Kendra (GenAI Index) for enterprise search, document discovery, and semantic search integrated with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Q Business
• Configure model customization and fine-tuning strategies using Bedrock Custom Model Import, prompt engineering, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns with proprietary enterprise data
• Implement AIOps and observability using Amazon Dev Ops Guru, Cloud Watch (anomaly detection, Container Insights, Lambda Insights), X-Ray, and distributed tracing capabilities
• Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions across multiple regions using Aurora Global Database, Dynamo
  
  DB Global Tables, S3 Cross-Region Replication, and Route 53 failover
• Lead application and data migrations from on-premises to AWS using Database Migration Service, Application Migration Service, and Storage Gateway
• Architect containerized workloads using Amazon ECS, EKS, Fargate, and ECR with security scanning and orchestration best practices
• Collaborate with Info Sec, Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to implement security guardrails, conduct threat modeling, and maintain regulatory compliance
• Enforce AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and guide Dev Ops teams on CI/CD pipelines using Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, and Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation, CDK, Terraform)
• Implement governance and continuous compliance using AWS Config, Audit Manager, conformance packs, and centralized logging with Cloud Watch Logs and Open Search
• Optimize costs using Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and S3 lifecycle policies
• Design data lakes and analytics platforms using S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Kinesis, and Redshift for real-time and batch…