Principal AWS Cloud Developer
Westlake, TX
Category: Engineer
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -052026-106707
Date Posted: 05/02/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/Q3Qbi9
Description:
Hybrid Every other week onsite/5 days in Westlake, TX
Our client seeks a Principal Cloud Developer to build scalable backend services and modernize mainframe capabilities that support digital experiences in financial planning, investing, and retirement. You will design and deliver reusable Java microservices, secure and performant APIs, and cloud-native solutions on AWS. You will champion engineering standards, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional partners.
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: $65.00 to $70.00/hr. w2
JN -052026-106707
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Responsibilities:
- Define and advocate for 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.
- Own the design of complex, distributed systems ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
- Ensure alignment of architecture and leadership with organizational goals and technology standards.
- Champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices for efficient delivery.
- Collaborate effectively with global teams and communicate across disciplines.
- Contribute across the development lifecycle in an agile, multi-functional team.
Experience Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering delivering scalable, high-quality 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 proficiency with services such as SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Kinesis, EKS, and infrastructure as code using CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Designing, building, and documenting secure, performant, and scalable RESTful APIs.
- Containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
- Strong SQL, relational databases, and version control for databases such as Liquibase; NoSQL experience with MongoDB or DynamoDB.
- Working knowledge of testing frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Test.
- Experience with Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum.
- Ability to interpret high-level business requirements and drive clarifying questions.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and mentorship abilities.
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.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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