Senior AWS Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural assessment, strategy, and execution of transitioning legacy, on-premises workloads to AWS.
• Utilize frameworks such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure.
• Partner with network architect to design and implement cloud networking architecture.
• Set up VPC peering.
• Evaluate the need for, and implement, a Direct Connect with AWS.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-wide cloud landing zone and governance policies.
• Define Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies, security baselines, and resource lifecycle policies to guide the Systems Engineering and Operations teams in secure, standardized resource provisioning.
• Champion automation by establishing IaC standards and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, ensuring the Systems Engineering team can safely and consistently manage cloud resources.
• Architect scalable, secure data platforms—including Data Lakes and Modern Data Warehouses—to aggregate diverse data streams.
• Ensure the underlying infrastructure optimized for high-performance data analytics, reporting pipelines, and advanced AI/ML modeling.
• Implement FinOps practices to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud spend while ensuring optimal system performance and scalability.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years in IT infrastructure/architecture, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on AWS cloud architecture and large-scale migrations.
• AWS Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53) and specialized data/analytics services (AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock).
• Automation & Provisioning: Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and configuration management.
• Governance Frameworks: Proven experience setting up AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and Service Control Policies (SCPs) for enterprise compliance.
• Certifications: One or more of the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional or Associate.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Amazon ECS/EKS).
• Strong understanding of data governance, data privacy regulations, and security compliance frameworks.
• Excellent collaboration skills to bridge the gap between technical operations teams and data science/analytics business units.