AWS Solutions Architect Tech Lead
For Smart Metering solutions
Location: Bucharest, Romania, Kyiv, Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine, Wroclaw, Poland, Remote
Area: DevOps/Cloud/Systems
Tech Level: Architect
About the Client
Our client is a leading provider of smart metering solutions serving approximately 800 customers through their infrastructure. The company is experiencing rapid growth with revenue projected to scale from €3M to €55M by 2030. Currently operating entirely on-premises infrastructure in a communication datacenter, they face critical scalability and cost challenges that require immediate modernization.
Key Business Challenges:
- Hosting costs consuming 20% of software & services revenue (industry standard: 8-12%)
- Monolithic architecture preventing efficient scaling and modern deployment practices
- Single-tenant model requiring separate infrastructure instances for each customer
- Manual scaling processes leading to inconsistent configurations
- Deployment cycles of 6-8 weeks with frequent delays and rollbacks
Project details
The Cloudification Project is a transformational initiative to migrate and re-architect the client's entire infrastructure to the AWS cloud.
Project Scope:
- Complete migration from on-premises to AWS cloud infrastructure
- Transformation from monolithic to service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Implementation of multi-tenant architecture replacing single-tenant model
- Integration with AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
- Establishment of CI/CD practices and cloud-native DevOps
Your Team
You'll be joining a collaborative team structure designed to balance external expertise with internal knowledge transfer.
Working Relationship:
- Joint interviews and decision-making for team scaling
- Knowledge transfer focus to build internal cloud capabilities
- Collaboration with Analytics & Services unit (one year ahead in cloud thinking)
- Regular milestone reviews for resource optimization
What's in it for you
- Interview process that respects people and their time
- Professional and open IT community
- Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
- Time for recovery and relaxation
- Bright online and offline events
- Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community
Responsibilities
- Architectural Design & Strategy
- Define target AWS cloud architecture for multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure
- Design migration strategy from monolithic to service-oriented architecture
- Establish optimal AWS managed services configuration
- Create transformation roadmap from current on-premises setup
- Determine containerized vs. cloud-native implementation approach
- Plan service transition sequencing for 800+ customer instances
- Technical Leadership & Implementation
- Guide development team work against defined architecture standards
- Oversee multi-tenant architecture design and implementation
- Establish Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform
- Design CI/CD pipeline architecture to replace 6-8 week deployment cycles
- Plan monitoring and observability solutions for multi-tenant environment
- Integrate with AWS MAP program requirements and timelines
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Alignment
- Achieve architectural alignment between two business units
- Collaborate with internal architects in mentoring capacity
- Work with three Product Owners as primary project liaison points
- Document architectural decisions and implementation guidelines
- Facilitate knowledge transfer to internal teams with limited cloud experience
- Support backlog structuring for cloudification initiatives
- Project & Team Management
- Provide technical leadership for growing development team
- Support Product Owner in sprint planning and backlog prioritization
- Establish development standards and best practices
- Plan team scaling strategy and skill requirements
- Coordinate with internal DevOps teams on integration points
Skills
Essential Qualifications
- 10+ years enterprise architecture experience with cloud transformation focus
- Extensive AWS architecture experience including managed services
- Proven track record with large-scale cloud migrations (lift-and-shift to re-architecting)
- Strong Java ecosystem knowledge and enterprise application architecture
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture design and implementation experience
- Experience decomposing monolithic applications into service-oriented architectures
- Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform preferred)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and DevOps practices
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