AWS Application Architect – Lead

🕒 May 28

⚔️ Virginia, Washington – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $102k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Consulting • Digital Services • Public Sector

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• The Application Architect will work closely with clients, leaders, solutions architects, and technical/functional leads across Guidehouse teams and market segments to support client projects and provide solutions for growth efforts and capabilities build-out. • Serve as a key member of the modernization team to lead and mentor full-stack development teams, providing technical guidance and architectural oversight for innovative solution prototypes using cloud architectures and modern software technologies. • Lead solutions architecture and hands-on engineering/full-stack development of scalable and secure distributed systems using modern software technologies and programming, AWS Native and microservices architecture, containerization, and API-First design patterns. • Work collaboratively with user experience designers, platform engineers, product owners, solution architects, business analysts, and full-stack development teams to design, build, test, and deploy high-value, operationally resilient software products on the AWS cloud platform that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. • Define application architecture standards, design patterns, and development best practices across development teams while establishing architectural roadmaps for complex modernization projects and ensuring alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles. • Lead technical decision-making processes, oversee the implementation of complex distributed systems, and provide escalation support for complex technical challenges while managing project timelines, resource allocation, and technical deliverables for multiple concurrent initiatives. • Guide proof-of-concept development and technical demos to validate solution strategies, lead solution architecture efforts for RFPs, technical proposals, and thought leadership initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder. • A Bachelor's degree or additional four(4) years of relevant experience will be needed in lieu of degree. • Minimum of Six(6) to Ten (10) years of prior relevant experience in full-stack application development with at least FOUR (4) years in leadership/architectural roles. • Minimum of FIVE (5) years of experience with AWS cloud application development to build/modernize applications. • Experience and proficiency in leading teams and implementing frontend and backend services for cloud-native software products and solutions such as Python, JavaScript, Django, and Vue.js. • The must-have skills include expert proficiency in Python and JavaScript with proven team leadership experience managing 5+ developers. • Proven ability to work autonomously and lead, mentor, collaborate, help, and support other team members to solve complex technical problems while managing multiple concurrent projects. • Proven ability to architect software products and solution prototypes, establish technical standards, and use prototypes to validate technical solution strategies and communicate and explain the pros and cons of complex design alternatives to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience with microservices architecture, API design patterns, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), serverless computing, and modern CI/CD practices for enterprise-scale applications. • Familiarity with the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and proven design patterns, like Model-View-Controller, Circuit Breaker, and Event-Driven patterns, is required, as is the ability to design and build cloud-based software products that conform to the AWS Well-Architected Framework design principles. • An in-depth understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile practices and principles, with extensive experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Parental Leave • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance • Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Care.com annual membership • Employee Assistance Program • Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.) • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus