The Senior Cloud Architect establishes and maintains NASCO’s AWS cloud environment to ensure security, scalability, operational resilience, and streamlined design across our SaaS product architectures. This role leads cloud architectural direction, engages in governance, ensures alignment with AWS best practices, and collaborates with engineering, product, security, and cloud operations teams. The Senior Cloud Architect translates complex requirements into actionable designs while promoting innovation, cost efficiency, and technical excellence across the enterprise.
Guides the design, development, and deployment of cloud‑native, elastic, resilient SaaS products aligned to AWS best practices
Architects secure, scalable, performant, serverless SaaS solutions ensuring high availability
Defines and maintains cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns using primarily AWS resources
Creates and maintains architectural blueprints for infrastructure, applications, and data flows
Establishes and enforces cloud governance frameworks, usage guardrails, and design principles
Ensures compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, and other regulatory and security frameworks
Guides adoption of Infrastructure‑as‑Code and automation to streamline provisioning, configuration, and operations
Guides adoption of optimized CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to improve deployment automation and delivery efficiency
Enforces cloud security best practices including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and secure SaaS product design
Develops and guides cloud observability strategies and optimize AWS environments for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
Mentors architects and engineers, and leads governance reviews to ensure scalable, secure, strategically aligned financially responsible design
Partners with product management, engineering, cloud operations, architecture, and security teams to communicate decisions and align cloud implementation with enterprise goals
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing large‑scale SaaS solutions on AWS
Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture across compute, storage, networking, integration, and serverless design
Proficiency in cloud‑native design patterns, microservices, and event‑driven architectures
Advanced knowledge of cloud security (IAM, encryption, secure design) and compliance frameworks
Strong experience with IaC tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform and modern DevOps practices
Skilled in observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with experience resolving complex issues in a cloud environment
Excellent communication and stakeholder‑engagement skills
Demonstrated leadership ability and experience mentoring technical teams
Ability to operate across multiple projects and operate effectively in a fast‑paced commercial SaaS environment
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of cloud governance frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks or NIST
Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities on AWS, including Bedrock
Ability to conduct and forecast cost–benefit and ROI analysis for proposed cloud solutions
Knowledge of AWS Well Architected Framework and ability to apply those principles to SaaS design reviews
Experience in forecasting design cloud compute costs, FinOps processes and design-based financial impacts
Experience:
10 years in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, or solution architecture
5 years hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑native commercial SaaS products
5 years of experience in designing complex distributed systems and enterprise cloud solutions
Required Training, Certification and Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Certification or similar
Preferred Training, Certification and Education:
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Additional AWS specialty or advanced certifications
Master’s degree in a technology‑related field
Working Conditions:
Home office/Remote
Ability to sit use equipment at workstation for up to 8 hours daily
Ability to work a flexible schedule when work requires
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NASCO is hiring a Sr. Cloud Architect
About company
We offer a comprehensive portfolio of healthcare administrative technology products and services that help health plans innovate, grow, and provide better healthcare experiences for those they serve.
NASCO sits at the operational core of health plans. For 40 years, we’ve powered the administrative backbone for some of the most complex payer environments in the country. We help connect critical pieces of the healthcare ecosystem and improve essential healthcare administrative functions across the front, middle, and back-office including claims processing, billing, benefits, non-claims-based reimbursement, and member servicing.
Our vision is that everyone deserves a better health experience, and we strive to enable that. Our mission is to make it possible for health plans to innovate, grow, and ultimately provide more affordable healthcare experiences for those they serve.