Technical Architect - AWS Enterprise Applications

Technical Architect - AWS Enterprise Applications

Job Locations

US-RI-Middletown

ID

2025-1375

Category

Engineering

Type

Full Time

Overview

KVH seeks a Technical Architect for KVH Manager , our enterprise-class application used by customers, service providers, and KVH internal support teams. This role sits within a high-performing technology and product team operating in a dynamic market, delivering data, voice, and other services to maritime, remote-geo, and other market sectors where reliable, high-quality online access is critical.

You will lead the architecture and technical direction of a platform integrating real-time data streams, event-driven workflows, and secure enterprise integrations - all deployed on a modern AWS serverless infrastructure. Reports to the director of Customer Applications.

Why This Role is Important

The AWS services profile from our most recent operational month shows core workloads in compute, storage, relational databases, search, observability, and secure networking , with significant use of event-driven architectures and archival storage. The Technical Architect will be responsible for ensuring performance, cost-efficiency, and security across this environment, while guiding the technical evolution of KVH Manager to meet future business and customer demands.

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and oversee implementation of scalable, high-availability AWS cloud solutions for KVH Manager and associated enterprise applications.

• Integrate and optimize core AWS services with a focus on EC2, S3, RDS, OpenSearch, VPC, Lambda, SQS, Storage Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Redshift .
• Lead technical decision-making for event-driven and serverless workloads, leveraging API Gateway, Kinesis, Step Functions, Athena, Glue, and ElastiCache .
• Design and manage secure, compliant architectures using IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, KMS, WAF , and networking best practices.
• Oversee data lifecycle and archival strategies across S3 Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, Storage Gateway Deep Archive , balancing compliance and cost.
• Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform , Jenkins , and DevOps pipelines (GitHub / GitLab).
• Monitor and optimize workloads using CloudWatch metrics / logs, CloudTrail auditing, and cost analysis.
• Partner with product management, development, DevOps, and security teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Support integration with Salesforce CRM / SFA, including Apex, Visualforce, and Force.com customization.

Qualifications

KVH offers a full suite of benefits to include generous paid time off, tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible / health spending account, employee stock purchase program, and retirement plan. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States (US Citizen or Permanent Resident) and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. KVH also conducts background checks and drug screening after acceptance of an offer. Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled