Technical Architect – on AWS (ECS & Fargate) - Dublin / HybridExperienceWe are seeking aTechnical Architectwith deep expertise inAngularandand hands-on experience architecting and documenting solutions hosted onAWS, particularly usingECS (Fargate).General insurance experience is desirable.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & DesignOwn end-to-end architecture for Angular (SPA) front end, (REST/GraphQL) services, and AWS containerized runtime ( ECS on Fargate ).Produce high-quality Solution Architecture Documents (SADs), HLD/LLD, sequence/flow diagrams, C4 model views, API contracts, and ADR s.Define multi-account AWS architecture (VPC, subnets, security groups, routing), IAM roles/policies, ECR strategy, container build/deploy standards.Establish patterns for service discovery, config management, API Gateway, and EventBridge/SQS/SNS for decoupled integrations.Architect CI/CD (e.g., CodePipeline/GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) with blue/green or canary deployments for ECS Fargate.Define observability —centralized logging (CloudWatch Logs/OpenSearch), metrics/alarms (CloudWatch), tracing (X-Ray/OpenTelemetry), dashboards, SLOs/SLIs.Cloud & Platform EngineeringImplement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) for repeatable environments.Optimize for resilience (multi-AZ), scalability (autoscaling), cost (right-sizing, Savings Plans), and security (least privilege, secrets management via AWS Secrets Manager/SSM Parameter Store ).Choose and govern AWS data services for booking systems: RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3 (with lifecycle policies), and KMS encryption.Application & IntegrationGuide Angular architecture: modular structure, state management (e.g., NgRx), routing, accessibility, performance budgets, internationalization.Guide architecture: 12-factor microservices, API versioning, validation (OpenAPI/JSON Schema), resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, idempotency).Design integration with core insurance platforms, pricing engines, payment gateways, CRM/ERP, data lakes, and third-party aggregators via API Gateway or event-driven patterns.Establish test strategy (unit, component, contract, E2E), non-functional testing (load, resilience, security), and data migration approaches.Qualifications10–15 years in software engineering with ideally 5+ years as an architect for web-scale systems.Strong hands-on in Angular (v10+) and (v12+) across design patterns, performance, and security.Proven experience deploying microservices on AWS ECS with Fargate (task definitions, services, autoscaling, service mesh or service discovery).Deep knowledge of AWS networking, IAM, CloudWatch, ECR, ALB/NLB, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, S3, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, Lambda (for glue/event processing).Demonstrated ability to produce clear, comprehensive solution/design documentation (HLD/LLD, API specs, sequence diagrams).General Insurance domain expertise; direct Insurance Booking system implementation (quote/bind/endorse/renew, pricing/rating, policy lifecycle, bordereaux).CI/CD expertise (one or more: CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps ).Strong understanding of security (OWASP, JWT/OAuth2/OIDC, WAF, least privilege, network segmentation).