AWS Solution Architect- Financial Services
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About the Role
Digifloat is hiring an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, govern, and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant cloud architectures for mission-critical financial systems.
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Responsibilities
- 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
- Ensure solutions meet strict financial and regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC2
- Implement end to end cloud security controls including IAM, encryption, and secrets management
- Lead development of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
- Architect modern cloud native solutions using containers (ECS, EKS) and serverless (Lambda, API Gateway)
- Design scalable and secure data architectures using Amazon S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift
- Architect secure AWS networking solutions including VPC design and hybrid connectivity
- Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK
- Proven experience in banking, fintech, or regulated industries
- Strong knowledge of compliance frameworks and audit processes
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Bash
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (highly preferred)
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Role Overview
- We are hiring an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design, govern, and deliver highly secure, scalable, and compliant cloud architectures for mission critical financial systems.
- This role is central to our cloud transformation strategy, ensuring that all AWS solutions adhere to stringent regulatory, security, and operational standards required in the financial services sector.
- The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, strong knowledge of financial domain compliance, and the ability to lead cross functional teams in delivering resilient and future ready cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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, least privilege access, encryption (KMS, TLS), and secrets management.
- Perform threat modeling, risk analysis, and security reviews.
- Support audits and ensure compliance reporting readiness.
- 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.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 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.
- Proven experience in banking, fintech, or regulated industries.
- Strong knowledge of compliance frameworks and audit processes.
- Data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Bash.
- Familiarity with automation and DevSecOps practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
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