AWS Senior/Lead Application Development Architect

EPAM; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000

Job description

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As an AWS Senior/Lead Application Development Architect at EPAM, you will be expected to play a pivotal role in shaping our application modernization strategy while providing sophisticated technical solutions to complex problems. Your tasks will not stop at planning cloud migrations, designing modernization journey, application design and development but will also extend to the field of pre-sales, where your expert guidance and strategies will help our clients gain the utmost benefit from our application solutions.

With EPAM's growing emphasis on harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence, your role as an AWS Director will be pivotal. You'll have the exciting opportunity to leverage GenAI-based solutions to drive application migration and modernization (pre-sales, consulting, and delivery) for our Enterprise customers. This is not just about updating technology; it's about transforming business processes, enhancing user experiences, and enabling our clients to become agile, future-ready businesses. Now is the time to lead this transformative journey at EPAM!

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and deliver high-quality solutions for application modernization leveraging AI in collaboration with our application and infrastructure teams by partnering with stakeholders across the organization.
• Provide technical direction and oversee the software development process to ensure efficiency and robustness of the solution.
• Engage in pre-sales activities including customer meetings, solution presentations, and participating in proposal and build GTM offerings as needed.
• Conduct proof of concept (PoC) exercises and present innovative ideas for improvements.
• Lead the design and deployment on AWS platform ensuring scalability, availability and fault tolerance.
• Provide guidance on application and integration best practices, Enterprise Architecture standards, with focus on both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Perform product analysis including cost/benefit trade-off analysis, feasibility study, etc., to align with client's business requirements.
• Innovate and design solutions that accelerate decision making, reduce time to market, enhance developer productivity by leveraging GenAI.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation in GenAI, encouraging team members to stay up to date with the latest developments and best practices.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar field.
• Extensive experience in software development and architecture leveraging AWS technologies.
• Experience with serverless, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, APIs, and microservice architectures.
• Expertise in design, development, and operations of large-scale systems, complex applications in AWS Cloud.
• Proven experience in pre-sales activities in a software company.
• Proficiency in DevOps, IaC (Infrastructure as code), experience with cloud migrations and modernization. Bring in AI as seen needed.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Golang, Java, .NET, etc.
• AWS Professional certification is preferred.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong customer orientation and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Willingness to travel for client meetings and presentations minimum 25%.

We offer

• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Protection benefits including life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover.
• Private medical insurance and dental care.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Competitive group pension plan.
• Cyclescheme, Techscheme and season ticket loans.
• Various perks such as free Wednesday lunch in-office, on-site massages and regular social events.
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, over 22,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more.
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program.
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program.
• *All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements.