Enterprise Cloud Architect (AWS)

Job summary

The Cloud Architect leads the design and evolution of secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud solutions, primarily on AWS. The role defines AWS reference architectures, governance, and guardrails; guides workload modernization and migrations; and partners with application, infrastructure, security, data, FinOps, and business teams. It also advances infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, observability, backup, and disaster recovery, using the AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide decisions.

Qualifications

• At least five years of cloud architecture or engineering experience.
• Experience defining AWS architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Experience translating business priorities into scalable AWS architectures and roadmaps.
• Knowledge of cloud-native design and modernization, including ACK, Argo CD, Terraform or AWS CloudFormation/CDK, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, containers, serverless, and observability.
• Experience as an architect delivering end-to-end implementations, deployments, and upgrades.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across security, infrastructure, application, data, and business teams.
• Technical leadership, sound judgment, problem-solving ability, and influence in complex environments.
• Familiarity with Agile SAFe, SDLC, ITIL 4 Foundation, programming languages and web technologies, and ServiceNow is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures aligned with business strategy and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Define AWS governance, reference architectures, guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns.
• Assess workloads and AWS services for modernization, performance, resilience, security, and cost optimization.
• Lead architecture for AWS landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, data, integration, containers, and serverless services.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to embed identity management, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
• Evaluate emerging AWS capabilities and recommend adoption approaches, including generative AI where appropriate.
• Guide application and platform teams on cloud-native design, migration patterns, and architecture decisions.
• Advance infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, observability, backup, and disaster recovery practices.
• Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, standards, and shared knowledge repositories.
• Drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, technical mentoring, and change management.

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