• Albany, NY
  • $110–$120 Per Hour
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AWS Solutions Architect

  • Location: Albany, New York 12207
  • Work model: Hybrid
  • Posted 6 days ago
  • Job ID: JPC - 211263

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Job Description

Target Rate: $110-120/hour

Start Date: Not earlier than 1/4/2027

Duration: Projected 3 years

Full Time reducing to Part Time: 40 hours per week in Year 1; 30 hours per week in Year 2; 20 hours per week in Year 3

Location: 540 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Albany, NY 12207

Hybrid; 50% onsite is required. The client strongly prefers candidates who can work 100% onsite.

Job Duties:

  • Lead the architecture and technical design of secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable AWS-based applications, integrations, data platforms, reporting solutions, and cloud workloads.
  • Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to translate approved business and technical requirements into detailed AWS architectures and implementation specifications.
  • Design API-based, event-driven, scheduled, and other integration patterns among AWS services, OPWDD/ITS systems, software-as-a-service platforms, vendor solutions, and authorized data sources.
  • Define service selection, data flows, network and account topology, identity and access models, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and cost-control approaches.
  • Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, templates, and implementation guidance for current and future AWS initiatives.
  • Provide technical leadership and direction to AWS data engineering and DevOps/CloudOps resources, conduct design reviews, resolve technical blockers, and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
  • Review AWS-related designs and implementation work performed by vendors and system integrators to promote alignment with OPWDD/ITS architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.
  • Support proofs of concept, solution build, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and transition to operations.
  • Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
  • Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision records, interface documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Required Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing production AWS solutions in complex enterprise environments.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, security, serverless, integration, data, monitoring, and governance services.
  • Experience designing secure REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations using authentication and authorization standards such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens.
  • Experience with AWS identity and access management, virtual private cloud design, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and multi-account governance.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, observability, security, and cloud cost-management practices.
  • Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and technical specifications and communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
  • Experience leading technical teams and reviewing the work of vendors, subcontractors, or system integrators.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • A minimum of 10+ years of related experience.
  • A minimum of 2+ years of supervisory experience.

Preferred Credentials/Certifications:

  • AWS Solutions Architect certification is strongly preferred; professional-level certification is a significant plus.
  • Experience establishing enterprise AWS landing zones, multi-account environments, governance controls, and reusable platform patterns.
  • Experience integrating enterprise SaaS, electronic health record, data warehouse, lakehouse, or analytics platforms.
  • Experience supporting public-sector, healthcare, Medicaid, or other regulated environments, including sensitive or protected data.
  • Experience developing production backend services and additional AWS security, networking, DevOps, or data-focused certifications are a plus.

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Job details

Job ID JPC - 211263

Location Albany, New York, United States

Work Model Hybrid

Job Type Contract

Experience 10-15 years

Industry Accounting - Finance Admin/Clerical Advertising Agriculture Airline - Aviation Architecture - Building +75 more

Pay Rate $90 - $110 (Hourly)

Posted October 13, 2026

Skills Amazon Web Services AWS

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LocationAlbany, NY
Salary$110–$120 Per Hour

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