• Own the architecture of one or more critical cloud service domains, with responsibility for design integrity, scalability, reliability, security, and technical debt management over time. • Act as the architectural steward for AWS-based services, ensuring systems remain scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, secure, and maintainable as customer and platform demands grow. • Define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and integration patterns that enable independent evolution of cloud services. • Drive cloud-native design principles, including stateless services, managed services adoption, and failure-tolerant architectures. • Lead the planning and execution of cloud architecture improvements that enhance scalability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency. • Translate architectural vision into mid- and long-term technical roadmaps, balancing near-term delivery with long-term cloud sustainability and cost optimization. • Drive cross-team alignment on design standards and architectural trade-offs. • Partner with CloudOps teams to define reliability targets, disaster recovery strategies, and operational readiness standards. • Champion modern cloud-native development practices, including infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, continuous delivery, and observability-by-default. • Lead adoption of AI-assisted software engineering for cloud service development, infrastructure definition, testing, troubleshooting, and refactoring. • Design cloud services and infrastructure that are AI-friendly by design, enabling safer automation, faster iteration, and improved operational insight. • Collaborate with engineering leadership to establish best practices and guardrails for responsible, secure use of AI tools across the cloud SDLC. • Set and uphold high standards for service reliability, security, observability, performance, and cost management. • Drive improvements to developer experience for cloud services, including local development, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and operational tooling. • Ensure architectural decisions, service contracts, and operational runbooks are well-documented, discoverable, and actionable. • Promote a strong culture of ownership and continuous improvement. • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the bar for cloud architecture, distributed systems design, and operational thinking. • Serve as a technical multiplier—unblocking teams, accelerating architectural decisions, and reducing long-term operational complexity. • Communicate complex cloud and systems concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Stay ahead of industry trends in AWS services, cloud-native architectures, AI-enabled operations, and DevOps practices, driving pragmatic adoption where it delivers clear business value.