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AWS Cloud Architect 6184

McLean, VA 22102

Posted: 08/25/2026 Employment Type: Contract Industry: IT/Computing Job Number: 3294 Remote Friendly: Hybrid

Job Description

AWS Cloud Architect
1+ Year Contract
McLean, VA OR Memphis, TN (hybrid)
(6184)

IMMEDIATE new job opening for an AWS Cloud Architect to join our team and work in a hybrid capacity at one of our client’s global HQs based in McLean, VA or Memphis, TN. Reporting to the Senior Manager, HSM Digital Solutions, you will help design and build HSM's next-generation cloud data lake and modern data platform. In this role you will partner with business stakeholders, technology, data engineering teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud data solutions that support procurement analytics, digital products, and AI-powered capabilities.
 
We are seeking candidates with at least 3+ years of experience in the following:
 
  • Design and document AWS cloud database architectures that support performance, scalability, availability, security, governance, and cost optimization requirements.
  • Lead the modernization and migration of legacy on-premises databases and data platforms to AWS cloud services.
  • Architect and optimize data solutions using AWS services such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, AWS Database Migration Service, and related monitoring and security services.
  • Define database patterns for transactional, analytical, integration, and reporting, including OLTP, OLAP, and data lake workloads.
  • Develop architecture standards, reference patterns, design decision records, runbooks, deployment playbooks, and operational best practices.
  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, governance, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met.
  • Develop migration plans, proof-of-concepts, cutover strategies, rollback plans, validation approaches, and post-migration optimization activities.
  • Partner with security and governance teams to implement encryption, IAM, network isolation, auditing, logging, data retention, access controls, and compliance requirements.
  • Drive performance tuning and optimization through data modeling, indexing, partitioning, query tuning, workload management, capacity planning, and observability practices.
  • Implement and promote automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, schema migration practices, and repeatable deployment patterns for database-backed solutions.
  • Develop dashboards and operational metrics for database health, cost, usage, SLAs, reliability, and platform performance.
  • Collaborate with application, integration, analytics, and reporting teams to translate business requirements into practical database and data-platform solutions.
  • Review and provide recommendations on cloud architecture designs developed by vendors and solution partners.
  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies to support cloud data platform modernization and AI-enabled business initiatives.
     

**To view all of our open positions, please visit: Alleare Consulting.

Meet Your Recruiter

Megan Holcomb
Senior Account Manager and Recruiting Supervisor

Megan serves as Senior Recruiter and Account Manager for Alleare Consulting.  She combines her knowledge and experience in working with numerous individuals with a strong passion and sense of urgency for our clients. Her desire to match the right person to the culture, core values, and business strategies of our clients has enabled Megan to maintain an extremely high level of client satisfaction.

Mrs. Holcomb holds her Bachelors in Marketing from the University of North Texas and also served as a Kilgore College Rangerette at Kilgore Junior College.

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