Cloud Solutions Architect (all genders)

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to join us here at Lucanet as we continue our journey of becoming a true SaaS provider with a new state-of-the-art corporate performance solution. Reporting directly to or VP of Engineering, you'll be a conduit between the engineering teams, non-tech teams, and the various stakeholders across the Lucanet ecosystem - advising on all things AWS.

At a macro level, you must be able to make the crucial strategic architectural and technological decisions that will steer Lucanet in the right direction. You will join an established profitable business, with a highly entrepreneurial culture that will empower you to directly impact the future of our product and develop the architecture function.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the target state architecture
• Advise engineering teams on use of AWS technologies & design
• Review & contribute to high level designs that Engineering teams product
• Act as a conduit between Product & Engineering to drive out non-functional requirements & ensure they are capture
• Mentor engineers around architecture, design, trade-off
• Involved in proof of concepts to ensure project success

What you bring to the table

• Strong AWS knowledge across the following areas:
• Security (IAM, Cognito)
• Networking (Base concepts, API gateway, ALB)
• Storage (S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS, PostgreSQL)
• Messaging/Eventing (SNS, SQS, EventBridge)
• Compute (Lambda, EC2, ECS, Fargate)
• Excellent stakeholder management - Must be able to network & form relationships with key technical stakeholders across multiple teams
• Confident communicator - Authoritative but open to persuasive counter arguments. 'Strong opinions, loosely held'
• Ability to create coherent & efficient design proposals and analyse design trade-offs from an Engineering perspective
• Experience of mentoring/upskilling teams with AWS

Perks at work

• LucaFlex – We acknowledge that every individual has different working styles and preferences. Our flexible working model allows you to plan your working hours and location according to your needs and professional responsibilities.
• Work from Abroad – Sometimes a change of scenery can boost creativity and productivity, you can work up to 90 workdays outside your home country with the support from our partner Workflex.
• Sabbatical – Take the time you need for personal pursuits, family time, travel, or any other activities that suit you with our sabbatical options.
• Team Spirit – We value teamwork and celebrate our achievements. That’s why we take many opportunities to get together, learn together, and cherish our successes together.
• Learning & Development – We encourage you to shape your own development with the support of dedicated time, resources, and budget provided by us.
• Lucanet Engage – Our feedback process is designed to support your personal and professional development in a targeted manner through regular dialogue.
• Lucanet Do Good– As a company we want to give back and support you in taking the time to do some good, individually or as a team, with paid volunteer time.
• Health & Wellbeing – Your overall wellbeing is important to us, which is why we offer tailored health and wellbeing programs, including company-wide initiatives, subsidies for sports activities, mental health support, and counseling through our external partners.
• Generous leave policy – We encourage you to take time off to relax, travel, and recharge.
• Compensation & Company Pension Plan – We are committed to equal pay and supporting you for your future by offering a company pension plan and/or pension allowances.
• JobRad – Find your dream bike, with financial support from us.
• Discounts – Enjoy a whole bunch of discounts from our external corporate benefits partner.