& Summary

We are looking for an experienced and customer-focused AWS Architect with strong expertise in cloud solutioning, pre-sales engagement, and team leadership. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing enterprise-scale AWS cloud architectures, leading technical discussions with customersand understanding the customer’s requirement, supporting sales teams, and managing high-performing cloud engineering or consulting teams.

This role requires a blend of deep technical capability, business understanding, stakeholder management, and leadership skills to drive cloud transformation initiatives for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Solution Design

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized solutions on Amazon Web Services.

• Lead architecture discussions, cloud assessments, migration strategies, and modernization initiatives.

• Develop reference architectures, HLDs/LLDs, and cloud adoption roadmaps.

• Provide guidance on AWS services including:

• Compute, Networking, Storageand Databases

• IAM & Security

• Containers & Kubernetes

• Serverless Architecture

• DevOps & Automation

• Backup & Disaster Recovery

• Monitoring & Observability

• FinOps

Pre-Sales & Customer Engagement

• Work closely with sales/account teams during customer engagements and RFP/RFI responses.

• Conduct technical discovery sessions, workshops, and solution presentations for enterprise clients.

• Translate business requirements into technical cloud solutions and migration strategies.

• Participate in solution estimations, pricing discussions, and proposal creation.
  Build customer confidence through architecture reviews, PoCs, and demos.
  

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor cloud architects, engineers, and consultants.

• Manage resource planning, delivery oversight, and technical governance.

• Drive best practices, architecture standards, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Collaborate across cross-functional teams including delivery, security, operations, and sales.

• Support hiring, capability development, and performance management activities.

Governance & Strategy

• Ensure cloud solutions comply with security, compliance, and operational standards.

• Define cloud governance frameworks and optimization strategies.

• Support multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy discussions where required.

Mandatory Skill Sets

Strong hands-on experience with AWS architecture and cloud transformation projects.

• Expertise in AWS services such as:

• EC2, VPC, S3, RDS

• Lambda, ECS/EKS

• CloudFormation/Terraform

• Route 53, ELB, API Gateway

• CloudWatch, IAM, GuardDuty

• Good understanding of:

• Kubernetes & Containers

• CI/CD pipelines

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Networking & Security concepts

• Disaster Recovery & High Availability architectures
  

Experience handling enterprise customers and strategic accounts.

• Strong presentation, proposal-writing, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience supporting large deals, bid management, and solution estimation.

Proven experience managing technical teams and customer-facing engagements.

• Strong communication, mentoring, and conflict-resolution abilities.

• Ability to drive technical strategy and delivery excellence.

Preferred Skill sets

AWS Certifications such as:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• AWS Security Specialty

• Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

• Exposure to industries such as BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, or Manufacturing is preferred.

Years of Experience Required:

Education Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.