| Location | Irving, TX |
Java AWS Architect
Location: Irving, TX (onsite)
Rate: #### hourly
*No OT
Required Skills
Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices
Deep AWS architecture and implementation expertise, including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
Terraform and/or CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code)
Strong database experience with Aurora, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems
Cloud-native, event-driven architecture design and implementation
Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor AI
AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred
Responsibilities
Act as a hands-on Architect/Principal Engineer building secure, scalable, cloud-native platform services.
Lead architecture design, modernization, cloud migration, technical decisions, and performance optimization.
Drive best practices for design patterns, software engineering, database design, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability architectures.
Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership.
Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, data-intensive applications.
Ideal Candidate
Recent hands-on Java/Spring Boot development experience.
Strong AWS architecture background beyond basic service usage.
Expertise across relational and NoSQL databases.
Self-driven, ownership-oriented engineer with a principal-engineering mindset who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Proven experience designing secure, scalable, event-driven solutions and leading technical initiatives.