Senior AWS Architect

Post Date

Oct 24, 2025

Location

Kansas City,
Missouri

ZIP/Postal Code

64105
US
Dec 26, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Architect

Req #

KCM-d3be7b40-01b9-4097-8513-38ead290b3df

Pay Rate

$48 - $60 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a Senior AWS Architect to join one of our clients in the Kansas City area. This position will be in office 4 days a week! This person will be responsible for helping support the companies online payment processing system. The role will require some development components in terms of doing proof of concepts, but not daily development. This person will help direct the technology and vision of the system to determine how it can be best innovative. This person should have a good variety of architecture skills and not be too siloed into one area of expertise as this role will call for provide collaboration across multiple areas of the business. This is a new developed system but they will continue to look for new ways to improve the architecture. The majority of this role will be doing architecture in an AWS environment with roughly only 10% hosted in Azure.

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Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms: for this role, AWS will be the primary environment
○ Has architectural knowledge with SOLID principles, event sourcing, modern design patterns, and microservices just to name a few
• Understanding and practice of cloud security and compliance
○ IAM and SCA (SonarQube or Veracode)
• Understands cloud components such as: Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch, SNS, etc
• Experience with .NET ecosystem, SQL, and understanding of API integration
• Docker containerization expertise
• CI/CD experience with tools or components such as: AWS CodeBuild, GitHub, or Azure DevOps
• Good leadership skills and able to enforce coding/architecture standards

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Payments or FinTech industry background
• PCI compliance audit
• Understanding of payment processing workflows

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.