Senior Enterprise Architect – Full Stack Java / AWS

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Architect – Full Stack Java / AWS Work Location & Reporting Address: Richardson, TX 75082 Vendor Rate: $70/hr Contract duration (in months): 12 months Interview Process (Is face to face required?): Yes Must Have Skills (Top 3 technical skills only) * FullStack Java, AWS, Micoservices Detailed Job Description: This role combines enterprise architecture governance, solution architecture, and hands-on engineering. The Senior Enterprise Architect will help evolve architecture standards, patterns, reference models, and review practices; design scalable, secure, resilient cloud solutions; and work directly with technology when needed. The candidate must be able to build prototypes and reference implementations, contribute to backend services and APIs, and develop or modify modern web UI components. Key Responsibilities · Develop and continuously improve architecture governance products, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and review practices aligned with enterprise policies and principles. · Partner with Architecture Review Boards and delivery teams to evaluate solutions, identify risks or deviations, manage exceptions, and drive remediation. · Translate business, technical, and data requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, roadmaps, and implementation guidance. · Design cloud-native solutions with appropriate consideration for scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, security, performance, observability, and cost. · Evaluate AWS and emerging technologies for fit within the enterprise ecosystem and support their approval, standardization, and adEligible to workion. · Serve as a trusted technical advisor to business, architecture, engineering, security, compliance, controls, and program teams throughout the delivery lifecycle. · Perform hands-on backend development for prototypes, reference implementations, and selected capabilities, including RESTful APIs, microservices, integrations, and data-access components. · Perform hands-on UI development using modern web technologies and frameworks, and demonstrate engineering practices such as automated testing, source control, CI/CD, containers, and cloud deployment. Required Qualifications · Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. · 10+ years of progressive IT experience across solution/application architecture and software engineering, including significant enterprise or solution architecture responsibility. · Experience with architecture governance, standards, patterns, reference models, technical reviews, and exception management in a large enterprise environment. · Strong hands-on full-stack engineering skills and the ability to write and review production-quality code and rapidly build working prototypes. · Backend development experience with REST APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and a modern language/framework such as Java/Spring, Python, or Node.js. · Front-end development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and a modern framework such as React or Angular. · Strong knowledge of AWS/cloud architecture, including compute or containers, networking, storage, databases, serverless technologies, monitoring, security controls, and infrastructure-as-code concepts. · Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, documentation, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers and senior leaders. Minimum years of experience*: 10 years