AWS Application Architect

Job Title: AWS Application Architect
Location: Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC, Knoxville, TN or Lafayette, LA
Type: Fulltime

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain application architecture documentation, technical specifications, integration diagrams, and implementation guidelines.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams building and modernizing applications hosted on AWS.
• Evaluate application requirements and recommend appropriate AWS services, integration approaches, and implementation strategies.
• Support the development of application prototypes and proof of concept solutions to validate technical approaches.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure applications meet performance, scalability, availability, and security requirements.
• Identify and resolve complex application integration, performance, and connectivity issues.
• Participate in technical reviews, code reviews, and application modernization initiatives.
• Promote application development standards, reusable components, and Agile delivery practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC.
• Experience developing and documenting application architecture, technical specifications, application components, and integration patterns.
• Strong background in enterprise application development using Java, Spring Boot, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience developing and integrating web applications, RESTful APIs, microservices, and service oriented applications.
• Experience supporting application migration, modernization, and deployment in AWS environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems, application connectivity, messaging, and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or Amazon RDS, including SQL and data integration.
• Familiarity with automated build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Understanding of Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Amazon ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of secure application development, authentication, authorization, encryption, and AWS security best practices.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve application performance, integration, and cloud infrastructure issues.
• Experience preparing technical specifications, application diagrams, implementation documentation, and technical recommendations.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating with development teams and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate.

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