AWS Cloud Solution Architect

About the role

The AWS Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, validating, and governing secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role plays a critical part in solution shaping, pre-sales engagements, and delivery transition, ensuring that AWS architectures are technically sound, commercially viable, and aligned to client business outcomes. The AWS Solutions Architect works closely with Sales, Data & AI Architects, Cloud Platform Teams, and Delivery to support cloud migration, modernization, digital transformation, and managed services engagements across industries.

Responsibilities

• AWS Solution Architecture & Design
  • Design end-to-end AWS solutions covering cloud foundation, networking, identity, security, compute, storage, and application platforms.
  • Define architecture patterns for cloud migration, application modernization (microservices, containers, serverless), and platform engineering.
  • Ensure alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework, security best practices, and enterprise governance standards.
  • Produce solution artifacts including architecture diagrams, design documents, and non-functional requirement mappings.
• Pre-Sales & Deal Support
  • Partner with Sales and Growth teams to shape AWS solution strategies for proposals, RFIs, and large pursuits.
  • Contribute to effort estimation, assumptions, risk identification, and mitigation strategies.
  • Support client presentations, technical deep dives, and executive solution walkthroughs.
• Delivery & Architecture Governance
  • Provide architectural oversight during delivery to ensure solutions adhere to approved designs and AWS best practices.
  • Guide delivery teams on implementation patterns, security controls, automation, and operational readiness.
  • Support transition from solution design to steady-state operations, including runbooks, observability, and resilience planning.
• Cloud Operations & Optimization
  • Design for availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, and scalability on AWS.
  • Support FinOps and cost-optimization strategies, including right-sizing, tagging, and usage monitoring.
  • Guide observability and monitoring designs using AWS native tools and partner ecosystems.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Collaborate with Data & AI, Security, Network, and Application teams to deliver integrated AWS solutions.
  • Contribute to reference architectures, accelerators, reusable assets, and best-practice documentation.
  • Stay current on AWS services, certifications, and emerging cloud-native patterns.

Requirements

• 10–14+ years of experience in cloud architecture, application architecture, or infrastructure design, with strong focus on AWS.
• Hands-on experience designing solutions using AWS core services (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience with application modernization, cloud migration, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong understanding of security, networking, and non-functional requirements in enterprise environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containers (EKS), serverless architectures, and event-driven designs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
• Exposure to Data, Analytics, or AI workloads on AWS.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
• Industry experience in regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, vector search, and agentic AI patterns on AWS.
• Industry experience in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial Services, or Transportation.
• Familiarity with Databricks on AWS and third-party data ecosystems.
• AWS certifications such as Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or Solutions Architect.

Why This Role Matters

• AWS Solutions Architects ensure technical credibility and execution confidence in AWS transformation programs.
• The role bridges sales intent and delivery reality, reducing risk and improving time-to-value.
• This position enables the delivery of secure, scalable, and outcome-driven AWS solutions across industries.
• Ability to translate complex technical architectures into business outcomes.

Pay

$132,000-$178,250 a year