Solutions Architect

 Responsibilities

• Lead Application Assessments, Architecture Reviews, and Modernization Assessments for enterprise customers.
• Define AWS reference architectures aligned with business and technical requirements.
• Recommend migration and modernization strategies based on the AWS 7Rs framework.
• Facilitate technical workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture reviews with customers and internal teams.
• Produce As-Is and To-Be architectures, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and modernization roadmaps.
• Develop business cases, effort estimations, risk assessments, and cost models for cloud transformation initiatives.
• Guide engineering teams during implementation, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices.
• Promote AWS Well-Architected principles across security, reliability, performance, operational excellence, sustainability, and cost optimization.
• Act as a trusted advisor for customers, translating business challenges into scalable and resilient technical solutions.
• Influence technical and business decisions across multiple stakeholders, including executive leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience designing architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud migrations, application modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Hands-on experience conducting Application Assessments, Architecture Reviews, and Modernization Assessments.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services, including Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Integration, Security, and Observability.
• Experience defining modernization strategies using AWS 7Rs.
• Solid knowledge of architecture frameworks and best practices, including AWS Well-Architected Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), DDD, C4 Model, FinOps, and OWASP.
• Experience with Cloud Native and DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and Observability.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including SOLID, Design Patterns, Clean Architecture, Refactoring, CQRS, and Event-Driven Design.
• Knowledge of cloud security practices, including IAM, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, Zero Trust, encryption, secrets management, and secure architecture patterns.
• Exposure to Generative AI solutions using technologies such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker AI, RAG, AI Agents, Vector Databases, and LLMOps.
• Fluent English communication skills for collaboration with global teams and customers.