Cloud Architect – AWS (Enterprise) - MerQube

About MerQube

MerQube is a fintech firm building advanced technology for indexing and rules-based investing. Founded in 2019, MerQube delivers enterprise-grade, cloud-native platforms that power thematic, ESG, QIS, and delta-one indices across global markets

Role Summary

We are looking for an Enterprise Cloud Architect (AWS) with deep organizational experience designing and governing large-scale AWS environments. This role requires strong expertise in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, enterprise architecture patterns, and large-scale cloud networking and security design. You will define cloud standards and architectures that support highly regulated, mission-critical platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise-level AWS architecture across multiple accounts and environments
• Apply and enforce the AWS Well-Architected Framework across reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence pillars
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure multi-account AWS environments and landing zones
• Architect enterprise-grade networking and traffic management using AWS-native services (VPC design, routing strategies, load balancing, private service access, endpoint strategies)
• Define standards for identity, access management, security boundaries, and encryption at scale
• Architect and govern data platforms and ETL architectures on AWS, supporting batch and near–real-time data processing
• Provide architectural guidance for ETL pipelines, workflow orchestration, and data movement across systems
• Define and standardize observability architecture across platforms, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLIs/SLOs
• Establish enterprise standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident visibility across AWS workloads
• Design and govern disaster recovery and business continuity architectures, including backup strategies, multi-AZ and multi-region resiliency, and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO)
• Drive cost optimization and FinOps practices, including architectural reviews, cost visibility, and efficiency improvements
• Lead architecture for container platforms on EKS, including cluster design, networking, security, observability, and resilience
• Establish architectural standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
• Partner with engineering, data, and research teams to support large-scale, data-intensive workloads
• Conduct architecture reviews, provide technical direction, and mentor senior engineers

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven enterprise AWS experience operating large, multi-team, multi-account environments
• Deep expertise in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, including reliability, security, and cost optimization pillars
• Strong understanding of AWS networking at scale (VPC architectures, routing models, load balancing, private services, endpoint strategies)
• Experience architecting ETL and data processing platforms on AWS
• Familiarity with data orchestration and pipeline patterns (batch and streaming)
• Strong experience designing observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) at enterprise scale
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and monitoring strategies for mission-critical systems
• Proven experience designing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions with defined RTO/RPO
• Experience driving cost optimization and FinOps initiatives at an architectural level
• Hands-on experience with EKS, Kubernetes, and container observability concepts
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid knowledge of cloud security, IAM design, encryption, compliance, and audit readiness
• Ability to define long-term architecture while enabling pragmatic delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications such as Solutions Architect – Professional or Advanced Networking –Specialty
• Experience designing high-availability, multi-region AWS architectures
• Background in fintech, financial services, or other regulated environments
• Experience with observability, cost optimization (FinOps), and capacity planning

Why Join MerQube?

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
• Flexible working arrangements
• Opportunity to shape enterprise cloud architecture at a global fintech company
• Collaborative, high-impact engineering culture

MerQube is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.