We're seeking an experienced AWS Architect to join a critical cloud remediation and transformation program within the financial services sector.
- Initial 3 month contract
- ASAP start
- Sydney CBD – 3 days per week in office
Working closely with senior stakeholders, technical leads, security teams, and engineering squads, you will be responsible for defining target-state architecture, producing High-Level Designs (HLDs), and driving architectural decisions that deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AWS outcomes.
This is a highly visible role suited to someone who combines deep AWS expertise with strong stakeholder engagement skills and experience operating within complex, regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) and architecture artefacts for large-scale AWS remediation initiatives
- Define secure, scalable, and highly available AWS solution architectures
- Lead architecture governance, design reviews, and technical decision-making forums
- Provide architectural guidance across security, networking, infrastructure, platform, and DevOps domains
- Partner with technical leads and engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural outcomes
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and constraints across complex AWS environments
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to align solutions with strategic objectives
- Mentor architects, engineers, and cloud teams while promoting best practice design principles
Key Skills & Experience
- 10+ years' experience in IT Architecture, including significant experience designing enterprise-scale AWS solutions
- Demonstrated experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) for large-scale cloud transformation, modernisation, or remediation programs
- Strong AWS expertise across a broad range of AWS services and capabilities, with exposure to some or all of the following: AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, IAM Identity Center, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudFront
- Good understanding of AWS security and governance services, including Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, AWS Config, SCPs, and modern security architecture principles such as Zero Trust
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation tools, including Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline
- Exposure to cloud operations, observability, and optimisation practices, including CloudWatch, OpenSearch, logging and monitoring platforms, and FinOps
- Proven experience designing secure, resilient, and highly available AWS environments within complex enterprise organisations
- Experience leading architecture governance, design reviews, and technical decision-making processes
- Previous experience within financial services or another highly regulated environment is essential
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical teams, senior leadership, and business stakeholders
Desirable Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.
For more information about this or other opportunities, please contact Steph Hodak. Please quote our job reference number 673736.
About us
NTT Ltd. is a global ICT provider, employing more than 40,000 people in a diverse and dynamic workplace, and delivering services in over 200 countries and regions. We partner with organizations around the world to shape and achieve outcomes through intelligent technology solutions. For us, intelligent means data driven, connected, digital, and secure.
NTT is proud to be an equal opportunity employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, veteran status, or other protected category.
