AWS Solutions Architect - Cloud & Application Platforms

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.

Key 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.
• AWS 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.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 8–14+ 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 Attributes

• 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.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience with AWS certifications such as Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or Solutions Architect.

Pay

$132,000 - $178,250 per year