The AWS Solution Architect is responsible for designing governing and implementing scalable secure and cost effective cloud solutions on AWS The role provides technical leadership for cloud migration initiatives and infrastructure provisioning The architect collaborates with enterprise architects platform teams and engineering teams to establish cloud architecture standards migration patterns and best practices
Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture Strategy
Define end to end AWS architecture for applications data platforms and enterprise workloads
Design scalable highly available secure and resilient cloud solutions aligned with business objectives
Develop cloud migration strategies reference architectures and targetstate roadmaps
Establish architectural principles standards and governance processes for AWS adoption
Evaluate and recommend AWS services and emerging technologies to optimize platform capabilities
Migration Modernization
Lead migration of applications ETL processes databases and data lake workloads from onpremises environments to AWS
Define migration waves dependency management cutover strategies and rollback plans
Identify opportunities for automation to accelerate migration delivery and reduce operational risk
Support application teams during migration planning and execution
Design cloudnative data platforms leveraging services such as S3 Glue catalog EMR Redshift Lambda and Athena
Define data ingestion transformation storage metadata and governance patterns
Collaborate with Data Architects and Engineering teams to establish reusable frameworks for largescale data migration
Ensure data quality lineage security and compliance requirements are incorporated into solution designs
Security Compliance
Define security architecture aligned with enterprise policies and AWS best practices
Design IAM network security encryption secrets management and audit controls
Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational standards
Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments for cloud solutions
DevOps Automation
Promote Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools
Define CICD architecture and deployment automation strategies
Implement monitoring logging observability and operational excellence practices
Drive adoption of automation frameworks to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency
Stakeholder Management
Work closely with business product infrastructure security and delivery teams
Present architecture recommendations technical roadmaps and design decisions to leadership
Facilitate architecture review boards and design workshops
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to architects and engineering teams
Required Qualifications Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or related field.
10 years of IT experience with 5 years of AWS cloud architecture experience.
Strong experience designing enterprise scale cloud solutions on AWS.
Hands on experience with AWS services including.
EC2
S3
VPC
IAM
Lambda
Glue
EMR
Redshift
RDS
CloudWatch
SNSSQS
API Gateway
Experience leading cloud migration and modernization programs.
Solid understanding of networking security disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation.
Knowledge of DevOps CICD pipelines and automation practices.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.