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Role Description

We are seeking a Senior AWS Solutions Architect to serve as a Resident Architect for enterprise and public sector customer engagements. The Resident Architect operates as a strategic cloud advisor rather than an implementation engineer, focusing on architectural governance, platform maturity, and adoption enablement rather than direct workload delivery.

• Provide ongoing architectural advisory, governance, and optimization guidance following cloud implementation projects.
• Sustain AWS adoption momentum by ensuring architectures remain aligned with AWS best practices, operational maturity goals, and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with customer engineering teams, AWS account teams, and Strategic’s Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to support cloud platform maturity, modernization initiatives, and operational readiness.
• Focus on strategic advisory, architectural validation, and adoption enablement, helping organizations extend and operationalize AWS architectures implemented during major transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture Advisory
  • Serve as the primary cloud architecture advisor for assigned customer environments.
  • Validate evolving architectures against the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Identify architectural drift and recommend remediation strategies.
  • Develop and maintain current-state and target-state architecture diagrams.
  • Support architecture governance processes and design decision documentation.
• Platform Engineering Enablement
  • Provide guidance on:
    • Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
    • CI/CD pipeline architectures
    • Containerization strategies (Kubernetes / ECS / EKS)
    • Landing zone design
    • Multi-account governance
  • Recommend automation strategies to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
• Operational Readiness & Cloud Optimization
  • Conduct Well-Architected Reviews and operational readiness assessments.
  • Support observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response improvements.
  • Assist teams in improving reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud workloads.
  • Identify cost optimization opportunities and FinOps alignment.
• Cloud Migration & Modernization
  • Advise on migration strategies including:
    • Rehost
    • Replatform
    • Refactor
    • Replace
    • Retire
  • Support phased modernization roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Security & Compliance Advisory
  • Provide architectural guidance aligned to:
    • FedRAMP
    • CJIS
    • HIPAA
    • FERPA
    • NIST frameworks
  • Support DevSecOps integration and IAM best practices.
  • Guide secure architecture patterns including encryption, network segmentation, and logging.
• Customer Enablement & Knowledge Transfer
  • Mentor internal engineering teams on AWS architecture best practices.
  • Conduct architecture workshops and technical briefings.
  • Support backlog prioritization for cloud improvements and adoption initiatives.
• Stakeholder Coordination
  • Coordinate with:
    • AWS account teams
    • AWS TAMs
    • Strategic delivery leadership
    • Customer engineering leadership
  • Provide monthly and quarterly architecture reviews and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Required)
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional (Preferred)
• AWS Security Specialty (Preferred)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD) (Preferred)
• FinOps Practitioner (Preferred)

Requirements

• 8+ years cloud architecture experience
• 5+ years designing and deploying AWS architectures
• Experience supporting regulated or public-sector cloud environments (e.g., FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, NIST frameworks, or GovCloud)
• Proven experience in:
  • AWS networking architecture
  • Identity and access management
  • Multi-account governance
  • Infrastructure-as-code automation
  • Cloud security architecture
• Experience supporting environments involving:
  • AWS Organizations
  • Landing Zone frameworks
  • DevSecOps pipelines
  • Hybrid architectures
  • Cloud migrations and modernization programs

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• 401k Plan
• Paid Vacation Days
• Paid Sick Days
• Paid Holidays
• Wellness Incentives
• Referral Bonuses