AWS Sr. Cloud Architect

About the role

About the Role The Principal AWS Cloud Architect is a lead-level technical role on our cloud engagements. You'll own the technical direction of a workstream or engagement end to end, working with the customer's technical teams to set strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.

This is a leadership role that stays hands-on. You'll lead and mentor a blended onshore/offshore delivery team. When the project calls for it, you'll roll up your sleeves and build: designing landing zones, running migration waves, and writing and reviewing IaC yourself. You're equally comfortable leading a team of engineers or working independently as the sole architect on a project.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

- Own the technical strategy for the engagement and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.

- Act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to decisions rather than leaving them open.

- Recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience. Say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one.

- Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade-offs considered and those deliberately deferred.

- Set the engineering standard by example: review designs, code, and IaC personally.

Hands-On Delivery

- Work independently as the sole architect on smaller or early-phase engagements, owning design and build without a supporting team.

- Step in hands-on when the project needs it to: - build foundational environments - execute migration waves - troubleshoot replication and cutover issues - write Terraform/CDK

- Lead remediation personally when a workstream needs stabilization.

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

- Lead and coordinate offshore engineering teams across time zones: assign and sequence work, set clear acceptance criteria, and run effective handoffs so progress continues around the clock.

- Review offshore deliverables (designs, IaC, runbooks, migration plans) for quality and consistency before they reach the customer.

- Mentor consultants and engineers to raise their technical depth, delivery discipline, and customer-facing skill. Unblock them quickly and help them grow into more senior roles.

- Partner with the Engagement Manager and customer to build an achievable project plan with realistic milestones and dependencies.

- Confirm the team has the right skill mix and capacity; escalate gaps early.

- Coordinate technical execution alongside partner consultants and other vendor teams in an Agile delivery model.

- Contribute to the development and refinement of new delivery offerings, reusable assets, and best practices.

Foundational Architecture