Automation Architect

What you'll do

• Define the long-term architecture and roadmap for cloud automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Design resilient, observable, and secure workflows using cloud-native services and modern practices.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
• Build reusable frameworks and standards to reduce one-off development and accelerate delivery.
• Guide technical decisions across multiple teams and influence automation adoption across the organization.
• Mentor developers to improve their engineering judgment and architecture skills.
• Conduct design reviews and establish practical governance to raise the technical bar.
• Structure experimentation to mature promising ideas into reliable production capabilities.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (completed and verified prior to start).
• Ten (10) years of experience in software development in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Five (5) years of experience with infrastructure automation.
• Three (3) years of experience with AI tools.
• Must be a U.S. person as defined by U.S. Export Control laws.
• AWS Serverless Architecture Expert-level experience designing secure, resilient, and scalable solutions using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS, and SNS (preferred).
• Proven ability to turn complex business processes into reusable automation patterns, frameworks, and platforms (preferred).
• Practical experience integrating generative AI, machine learning, or AI agents into business workflows (preferred).