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Job Title: AWS Platform Architect

Location: Hybrid -Dallas, TX; San Antonio, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; St. Louis, MO.

1st Week -Onsite and then 3 Days Hybrid

The AWS Platform Architect will define target-state AWS architecture and reusable platform patterns supporting enterprise data, analytics, and AI workloads. This role will establish standards across compute, storage, networking, integration, observability, security, scalability, resiliency, and workload isolation while partnering with Data Architects, Engineers, Security, and DevOps teams. Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is required.

Responsibilities

Define target-state AWS platform architecture for data, analytics, and AI workloads, including reusable patterns across compute, storage, networking, integration, and observability.
Design and enable AWS data and AI platform capabilities using AWS Glue, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, partnering with Data Architects and Engineers to align platform services with solution requirements.
Establish architecture standards for environments, connectivity, scalability, resiliency, workload isolation, high availability, and platform performance.
Define security and governance architecture patterns for IAM, encryption, secrets management, secure connectivity, monitoring, and platform guardrails, and support architecture reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Evaluate and optimize AWS platform designs for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost, while establishing reusable architecture and Infrastructure as Code patterns for engineering teams.

Qualifications

8–10 years of relevant IT/cloud experience, including demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale AWS platform architectures.
Must have hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, supporting data, analytics, and AI workloads.
Strong AWS architecture experience across compute, storage, networking, IAM, integration, security, monitoring, and observability, including services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS/ECS, and CloudWatch.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, including Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation, as well as CI/CD, cloud security, resiliency, and governance practices.
Strong architecture and stakeholder collaboration skills, with the ability to partner across Data Architecture, Engineering, Security, and DevOps teams; AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.

AWS Platform Architect

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