Senior AWS Cloud Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

On-site in Westlake, TX

Our client seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Developer to build scalable backend services for digital financial experiences. The team modernizes mainframe capabilities and delivers reusable Java applications that power customer-focused platforms. You will contribute across the development lifecycle within an agile team, advocate for engineering best practices, and lead design for reliable, performant, and secure distributed systems. You will influence product roadmaps, champion automation and DevSecOps, and collaborate with partners across business and technology domains.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $75.00 to $80.00/hr. w2

JN -052026-107124

• Define and advocate engineering best practices, design patterns, and architectural principles.
• Drive technical vision and influence product roadmaps through strategic thinking and innovation.
• Challenge existing solutions and propose scalable, maintainable alternatives.
• Lead the design of complex, distributed systems emphasizing reliability, performance, and security.
• Ensure alignment of architecture and leadership with organizational goals and standards.
• Champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices for efficient delivery.
• Collaborate with global teams and participate in key technical discussions.
• Contribute across the software lifecycle from concept to deployment within agile teams.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable backend services.
• Hands-on Java 11+ with Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and RESTful API development.
• Microservices design, event-driven architecture, messaging with Kafka and SQS, caching with Redis, and SQL/NoSQL data modeling.
• AWS provisioning and development with services such as SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Kinesis, and EKS.
• Designing and documenting secure, performant, and scalable RESTful APIs.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Building CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
• Relational and NoSQL database experience, including SQL, table creation, and version control tooling such as Liquibase.
• Testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Test.
• Agile methodologies including Kanban and Scrum.
• Nice to have: CloudFormation templates and Terraform.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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