AWS Solution Architect

Job Title: AWS Solution Architect

Location: Torrance, CA

Duration: 6 Months + Extension

Employment Type: Contract

Work Mode: 4 Days Hybrid

Interview Type: Video

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on AWS Cloud experience across compute, storage, networking, and serverless architectures.
• Strong understanding of full-cycle software development, microservices, APIs, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and data-storage architecture.
• Good understanding of network and infrastructure concepts, including OSI model, hybrid network topology, DNS, and load balancing.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security and compliance, including KMS/SSL encryption, IAM, VPC/network isolation, and vulnerability mitigation.
• Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Ability to translate complex business objectives into practical, scalable, and cost-effective technical solutions.
• Strong architectural decision-making skills with the ability to evaluate trade-offs between cost, speed, security, scalability, and technical debt.
• Experience creating and maintaining Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), system diagrams, and Proof of Concepts (PoCs).
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and ArchiMate.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both executive leadership and engineering teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Prior experience architecting Finance applications.
• Experience within the Automotive Finance domain would be highly preferred.

Mandatory Skills : Architectural diagrams, Architecture Patterns and Styles, Architecture Principle Design, Capacity Planning, Estimation

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Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No