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Description

AWS Professional Services (ProServe) is seeking a talented and experienced Cloud Architect to join our team. As a ProServe Cloud Architect, you will work directly with customers to design, architect, and implement cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers accelerate their cloud adoption journey — from migration and modernization to building cloud-native applications and leveraging emerging technologies such as generative AI.

Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Solution Architecture & Design: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud architectures tailored to customer business requirements and technical constraints.
- Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary technical point of contact during ProServe engagements, building trusted relationships with customer stakeholders ranging from developers to C-suite executives.
- Cloud Migration & Modernization: Architect and execute cloud migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor) for complex enterprise workloads, including legacy and mainframe modernization initiatives.
- Best Practices & Well-Architected Reviews: Conduct AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews and provide actionable recommendations to improve customers' cloud environments across reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, operational excellence, and sustainability pillars.
- Technical Delivery: Lead the delivery of ProServe projects end-to-end, including defining technical scope, creating architecture artifacts, guiding implementation teams, and ensuring quality outcomes.
- Innovation & Emerging Technologies: Advise customers on adopting emerging AWS services and technologies, including generative AI (Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker AI), serverless architectures, containers, and data analytics platforms.
- Collaboration: Work closely with ProServe Account Executives, Engagement Managers, Practice Managers, Solutions Architects, and AWS partner teams to deliver integrated solutions that maximize customer
- Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to internal knowledge bases, create reusable assets (reference architectures, automation scripts, templates), and mentor junior team members.
- Pre-Sales Support: Support business development efforts by participating in customer workshops, proof-of-concept development, and technical proposal creation.


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