AWS Architect

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.