The AWS Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and implementing secure, scalable, resilient cloud solutions supporting enterprise banking applications and modernization initiatives. This role partners with business, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to define cloud strategies, establish architecture standards, and drive adoption of AWS cloud capabilities while ensuring compliance, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Design enterprise-scale AWS architectures supporting modernization initiatives.
Define cloud migration and transformation strategies.
Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and architecture standards.
Lead architecture reviews and technology evaluations.
Create secure cloud designs aligned with regulatory requirements.
Partner with development teams to implement cloud-native solutions.
Define multi-region and disaster recovery architectures.
Establish Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.
Drive container and Kubernetes adoption strategies.
Design API-first and event-driven integration patterns.
Collaborate with Security and Risk teams to satisfy governance requirements.
Optimize cloud cost, performance, and reliability.
Mentor engineers and solution architects.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
10+ years IT experience.
5+ years AWS architecture experience.
Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
Experience with cloud migration programs.
Strong AWS networking, security, and compute expertise.
Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with microservices and API architectures.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification
Financial Services or Banking experience
Experience with AI/ML platforms.
Experience with event-driven architectures.
Experience in enterprise modernization programs.

Core Technology Stack

Cloud Platform

AWS
AWS Organizations
AWS Control Tower
AWS Landing Zone
Multi-Account Strategy

Compute

EC2
ECS
EKS
Lambda
Fargate

Storage

S3
EFS
FSx
AWS Backup

Database

PostgreSQL
RDS
Aurora
DynamoDB
Redshift

Networking

VPC
Transit Gateway
Route 53
Direct Connect
API Gateway
CloudFront

Security

IAM
KMS
Secrets Manager
GuardDuty
Security Hub
AWS Config
WAF
Shield

Cloud security, IAM, governance, and compliance are recurring themes in Truist cloud architecture roles.

DevOps & Automation

GitLab
GitHub
Jenkins
Terraform
CloudFormation
AWS CDK
Ansible

Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK are explicitly referenced in architecture-related roles.

Containerization

Docker
Kubernetes
EKS

Cloud-native, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes-based deployments are emphasized in architecture positions.

Observability

CloudWatch
Splunk
ELK
Datadog

Integration

REST APIs
GraphQL
EventBridge
SQS
SNS
Kafka

Programming

Python
Java
Node.js
PowerShell
Bash

AWS Solution Architect with Banking or Financial experience

Key skills

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