Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design and implement a robust, scalable, and high-performance cloud architecture for our financial reporting application.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS services, data processing, and containerized applications and reporting solutions.

Years of experience : 7+ years.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance AWS cloud infrastructure complying with Natwest standards.
• Review AWS Infrastructure components design & usage and implement enhancements.
• Design and implement an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) engine using AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) for efficient data processing.
• Design, review and Implement reporting solutions integrating Tableau with AWS services for seamless data visualization.
• Design and implement containerized UI applications (Front end & back end) with microservices Architecture on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code, scripting (Python/Bash), Helm charts, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience is reviewing and implementing cloud security best practices.
• Integrate and optimize supporting AWS services to create a cohesive, performant application ecosystem.
• Ensure the overall architecture meets performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to the architecture to enhance performance and reduce costs.
• Automate deployment processes and workflows using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Develop and enforce best practices for security, compliance, and cost management in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines , Devops tools and practices to improve software delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues, providing technical support and guidance.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experienced AWS architect who can bring best practices and expertise to design AWS infrastructure for the project.
• Experience with AWS services like S3, Data Lakes, Glue, Athena, Airflow (MWAA), EMR, IAM, Data Pipelines, Lambda, QuickSight, Redshift, Fargate.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, especially EMR, EKS and data-related services (e.g, S3,- RDS Postgres, etc).
• Experience with big data processing and ETL workflows.
• Familiarity with Tableau or similar BI tools and their integration with cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Should be able to support with defining CI/CD patterns for application code for all the various components on EMRs, EKS complying to Natwest standards.
  
  

Additional Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and outstanding analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Banking domain experience will be an added advantage.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
• Experience with financial reporting systems or similar data-intensive applications.
• Knowledge of Angular and Node.js for frontend and backend development.
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)