• Guides the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native, elastic, resilient SaaS products aligned to AWS best practices • Architects secure, scalable, performant, serverless SaaS solutions ensuring high availability • Defines and maintains cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns using primarily AWS resources • Creates and maintains architectural blueprints for infrastructure, applications, and data flows • Establishes and enforces cloud governance frameworks, usage guardrails, and design principles • Ensures compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, and other regulatory and security frameworks • Guides adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and automation to streamline provisioning, configuration, and operations • Guides adoption of optimized CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to improve deployment automation and delivery efficiency • Enforces cloud security best practices including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and secure SaaS product design • Develops and guides cloud observability strategies and optimize AWS environments for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency • Mentors architects and engineers, and leads governance reviews to ensure scalable, secure, strategically aligned financially responsible design • Partners with product management, engineering, cloud operations, architecture, and security teams to communicate decisions and align cloud implementation with enterprise goals