Cloud Architect
About the role
The Cloud Architect is a hands-on technical role within the Cloud Platform Engineering organization. You will define and evolve the architecture of a secure, highly available, multi-account AWS platform supporting regulated SaaS applications. This role leads cloud platform modernization and transformation initiatives, owning architecture standards, reference designs, resilience patterns, and technical direction across platform and application engineering teams. You will assess existing systems, define pragmatic migration and modernization paths, turn business and product needs into target-state AWS architectures, and guide implementation so the platform becomes more scalable, secure, reliable, operable, cost-aware, and compliant. Architecture ownership is central to this role: you will set platform standards and make architecture recommendations within the cloud domain, while implementation is delivered in partnership with platform engineering, security, operations, data, and application teams.
Responsibilities
- Define target-state AWS architectures, reference architectures, and decision records for secure, scalable, cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews and translate product, engineering, and enterprise technology roadmaps into implementable cloud designs.
- Design modernization strategies spanning serverless services, Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, EC2 Linux workloads, APIs, and event-driven components.
- Establish architectural standards for availability, scalability, performance, capacity, service boundaries, tenant isolation, and operational readiness.
- Guide multi