Cloud and Data architect fixed price

Job Title: Cloud & Data Architect (AWS/Azure)

Location: Reston, VA (3 days Hybrid)

Job Overview

We are hiring a Cloud & Data Architect to lead enterprise cloud and data architecture across AWS/Azure environments. This role involves driving architectural decisions, designing scalable and secure cloud-native solutions, and building enterprise data and MLOps ecosystems.

You will act as a trusted advisor to business and technical teams, define cloud migration strategies, and deliver modern architectures aligned with security, compliance, and governance standards. Strong expertise in microservices, CI/CD, containerization, and event-driven architectures is required.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for cloud and data enterprise portfolios
• Partner with stakeholders to define cloud solutions and strategies
• Develop AWS migration and adoption roadmaps
• Design:
• Application, data, and deployment architectures
• Functional and technical specifications
• Build secure, scalable, highly available cloud-native systems
• Implement best practices: cloud security, CI/CD, microservices, containerization
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Governance teams
• Design data platforms (Data Lakes, Warehouses, Marts) and real-time streaming systems
• Architect MLOps pipelines:
• Data ingestion, feature engineering
• Model training, tuning, evaluation
• CI/CD for ML, deployment automation
• Establish model governance (lineage, auditability, explainability)
• Design ML inference using EKS, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions
• Implement monitoring:
• Drift detection, data validation, performance alerts
• Observability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry)
• Design event-driven systems (Kinesis, SNS, SQS)
• Implement service mesh (App Mesh) for secure communication
• Design VPC, IAM, multi-account, landing zones
• Build logging, alerting, observability frameworks
• Work with DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, Docker)
• Create technical diagrams (DFD, sequence, architecture)
• Perform risk assessment, impact analysis, roadmap planning

Required Qualifications & Certifications

Education

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field (required)
• Master’s (preferred)

Experience

• 12+ years in development, engineering, architecture, leadership
• 5+ years as Cloud/Solution Architect (AWS/Azure)
• Experience with enterprise cloud implementations
• Strong in microservices, APIs, distributed systems
• Expertise in data platforms & streaming systems
• Programming: Python or Java
• Experience managing large distributed cloud environments
• Experience in risk, compliance, control frameworks
• Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) – plus
• Experience with Domino Data Labs or ML platforms – plus

Technical Expertise

• AWS services: S3, Lambda, Kinesis, ELB, RDS (PostgreSQL), Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ElastiCache
• Infrastructure: VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, multi-account, landing zones, cloud security
• Microservices tools: ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, App Mesh
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines
• Containerization: Docker

Certifications

• AWS/Azure Architect Associate (required)
• AWS Professional Certification (preferred)
• CISSP or equivalent (plus)
• TOGAF (nice to have)