Senior AWS Cloud Architect [MF]

Position Summary

We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Architect who will own the end-to-end architecture of our AWS cloud platform. This is not a generalist infrastructure role we need someone deeply rooted in AWS capable of building modern platforms from scratch industrializing architecture patterns and driving our Data and GenAI/Agentic initiatives forward on AWS.

You will lead greenfield projects from blank page to production design modern data platforms define architecture patterns for AI and agentic workloads and establish the governance and automation needed to scale with confidence. You will work hands-on alongside engineering product data and security teams not just reviewing but actively building unblocking and delivering.

If you thrive on ownership move fast with pragmatism and want to shape the technical foundation of a growing organization on AWS this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Greenfield Delivery

- Own the AWS cloud architecture roadmap and ensure alignment with business strategy

- Lead greenfield projects end-to-end: scope the target architecture make pragmatic design decisions guide first implementations and proactively unblock technical challenges

- Design production-grade AWS architectures spanning compute storage networking security serverless and event-driven patterns

- Lead modernization programs: on-premise to AWS monolith to microservices legacy transformation

- Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) reference architectures and technical documentation

Data Platforms on AWS

- Design modern data architectures on AWS: data lake lakehouse ingestion transformation and analytics

- Leverage AWS data services S3 Glue Athena Redshift Lake Formation EventBridge Step Functions Kinesis MSK to build scalable governed data platforms

- Collaborate with data and product teams to deliver robust production-ready data solutions

GenAI & Agentic Workloads on AWS

- Define architecture patterns for AI GenAI and agentic use cases on AWS

- Design solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock RAG patterns vector stores agent orchestration and workflow automation

- Ensure proper governance security and cost controls around AI/GenAI usage

- Stay current on AWS AI/ML service evolution and translate new capabilities into actionable architecture recommendations

Governance Automation & Operational Excellence

- Define and enforce architecture standards guardrails and best practices across teams

- Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CDK CloudFormation) CI/CD pipelines and GitOps adoption

- Architect observability and monitoring strategies using CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Datadog or equivalent

- Conduct AWS Well-Architected reviews and threat modeling sessions

Leadership & Collaboration

- Mentor junior architects and engineers raise the technical bar across the organization

- Act as the primary technical interface with AWS (TAM support partner programs)

- Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders

- Challenge the status quo constructively and propose improvements

Qualifications :

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills Required

- 7 years of experience in cloud/infrastructure architecture including at least 3 years of deep hands-on work on AWS

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (active mandatory)

- Proven track record of designing and delivering greenfield architectures on AWS

- Strong mastery of core AWS services: VPC EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda API Gateway RDS/Aurora DynamoDB S3 CloudFront IAM KMS

- Hands-on experience with AWS data services: S3 Glue Athena Redshift Lake Formation EventBridge Step Functions and ideally Kinesis/MSK

- Experience designing AI/GenAI architecture patterns on AWS: Bedrock RAG vector stores agent orchestration workflow automation governance of AI usage

- Strong mastery of serverless and event-driven architectures on AWS

- Solid command of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation AWS CDK or Pulumi)

- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes ECS EKS)

- Proficiency with CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD or equivalent)

- Sound understanding of networking (DNS load balancing VPN service mesh API gateways)

- Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK/OpenSearch)

- Proficiency in at least one language: Python TypeScript Go Java or Bash

- Deep knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Technical Skills Preferred

- AWS Security Specialty CKA/CKAD or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification

- Experience with streaming and data processing (Kafka Spark Airflow Snowflake)

- Familiarity with databases beyond AWS-managed services (PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch)

- Knowledge of GitOps tooling (ArgoCD Flux)

- Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost optimization strategies

- Experience with security tooling (Vault SIEM WAF identity federation zero-trust)

- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2 ISO 27001 GDPR HIPAA)

- Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid environments is a plus but not a focus of this role

- GCP or Azure certifications

Soft Skills Required

- Proactive mindset you anticipate problems and drive solutions without being asked

- Strong ownership you take full accountability from design through delivery

- Pragmatic decision-making you balance architectural ideals with delivery reality

- Ability to challenge constructively and propose concrete improvements

- Strong communication skills with both business and technical stakeholders

- Comfortable working in agile fast-paced environments with high autonomy

Additional Information :

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a global digital transformation journey.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Flexible work environment.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time