AWS ARCHITECT JOB DESCRIPTION

Cloud consulting engagements demand someone who can turn business objectives into production-grade architecture - and do it credibly with a CTO in the room. An AWS Architect in a managed services or enterprise consulting firm owns the technical direction of multi-cloud migration programs, from initial discovery workshops through post-migration governance. AWS Solutions Architect certification at Associate or Professional level is a baseline expectation, not a differentiator. Every engagement tests the ability to weigh tradeoffs among scalability, cost, and compliance within a client's existing constraints - the kind of judgment that generic cloud engineers do not yet carry.

You will own cloud architecture strategy and delivery outcomes across a portfolio of enterprise client engagements, serving as the AWS Architect who translates client business objectives into scalable, resilient infrastructure on AWS. Working within a cloud practice that spans advisory, migration, and managed services, you collaborate with pre-sales, engineering, and client stakeholder teams up to the C-suite level, with scope that spans both project-based and ongoing managed service relationships.

Career Impact: Sustained exposure to enterprise-scale AWS migrations across multiple client verticals accelerates the path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and positions practitioners for principal architect or practice lead roles within two to three years.

Business Impact: Clients rely on this architect's design decisions to determine whether cloud programs come in on schedule and within cost envelopes - a mis-architected VPC or poorly scoped migration plan surfaces directly in client retention metrics.

Growth Opportunity: Expanding scope from single-workload migrations into multi-cloud and DevSecOps advisory builds the breadth that employers price at the senior architect and cloud strategy director level.

Company Value: This role operates inside a cloud practice that spans advisory, implementation, and managed services - offering exposure to the full consulting model rather than a single delivery phase.

• Lead cloud architecture assessments and produce solution designs for enterprise AWS migration and modernization programs.
• Design scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant architectures for multi-tier applications moving from on-premises environments to AWS.
• Partner with pre-sales teams to conduct discovery workshops, gather requirements, and develop solution proposals and statements of work.
• Drive refactoring and modernization evaluations, identifying opportunities to adopt microservices, container-based, and serverless architectures.
• Mentor engineers and project teams to ensure implementation work aligns with approved architecture patterns and client-specific constraints.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, reference designs, and governance documentation for use across client engagements.
• Monitor client infrastructure during post-migration phases and identify optimization opportunities in cost, performance, and operational posture.
• Coordinate integration of cloud and hybrid environments, including networking boundaries, identity management, and managed database services.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8 or more years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or cloud architecture, with demonstrated delivery of production AWS solutions.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification at Associate level or above, or the ability to achieve certification within an agreed period of hire.
• Proven ability to design and deploy scalable, resilient cloud architectures including VPCs, IAM frameworks, load balancing, and disaster recovery configurations.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling, applied to cloud automation and deployment pipelines.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing stakeholder relationships from engineering staff through senior management.
• Strong documentation and presentation skills, with a track record of communicating architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, or equivalent certification on a second major cloud platform such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience with containerization platforms and orchestration tools applied to cloud-native or hybrid workloads.
• Background in pre-sales or consulting environments, including scope definition, effort estimation, and client-facing proposal development.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and cloud security frameworks applied to enterprise-grade environments.

• Client architecture acceptance rate, measuring the percentage of proposed designs approved without major revision.
• Migration milestone adherence, tracking on-time completion of agreed project phases across active client engagements.
• Post-migration infrastructure cost variance, measuring actual cloud spend against the architect's pre-migration estimates.
• Escalation resolution rate, reflecting how effectively this architect closes Level 4 technical issues before client impact occurs.
• Reusable reference architecture adoption rate, measuring uptake of documented standards across the broader engineering team.
• Typical tools: infrastructure-as-code (commonly Terraform, Ansible); CI/CD platforms (commonly Jenkins, GitHub Actions); container orchestration (commonly Kubernetes, Docker).

• Base Salary Range: $145,000 to $185,000 annually, depending on seniority and location
• Bonus: Annual performance bonus, typically 10 to 15% of base salary
• Equity: Stock options or RSUs common at larger consulting and technology firms
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution varies by firm
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually, plus federal holidays
• Common Perks: AWS certification reimbursement, continuing education stipend, remote or hybrid flexibility

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship eligibility varies by employer. Employment offers are contingent on the successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of prior employment, education, and professional credentials. Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities are available throughout the application and employment process upon request. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

The AWS Architect owns the end-to-end migration of group services to AWS, covering technology selection, proof of concept, and ongoing evolution within the architecture team. Leading technical teams through project delivery and Managed Service transitions, this role shapes how technical solutions are presented to stakeholders and senior management to demonstrate clear business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the architecture team to migrate group services to AWS, including technology selection, proof of concept, and ongoing evolution.
• Support implementation teams on AWS migration projects and managed service onboarding, providing technical support and mentoring.
• Lead technical teams through project delivery and transitions into Managed Services.
• Seek out new technologies and introduce those that deliver additional value.
• Present to stakeholders and senior management, articulating how technical solutions deliver business value.

Required Qualifications

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect at Associate level.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services in production across compute, networking, storage, database, security, IAM, and management tools.
• Proven experience in design and deployment of production solutions on AWS.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and IAC tools.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, internally and externally.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Capable and confident with complexity, focused on results, and open to constructive feedback.
• Inclusive leadership style with the ability to develop and improve approach over time.

Embedded within Capgemini's multi-industry client delivery practice, the AWS Architect helps customers make decisions to meet their technical and business objectives by providing best practices and proactively identifying and closing project gaps. Working closely with sales, engineering, and project teams, this role delivers scalable cloud solutions and shapes enterprise architecture standards to drive profitable outcomes for clients across all industries.

Core Functions

• Provide robust and scalable technology solutions to enable customers to scale operations into public cloud.
• Deliver detailed understanding of cloud software, platforms, and infrastructure services aligned to well-architected principles.
• Lead or participate in proof of concept development to define technology direction for customers.
• Participate in Agile sprints and drive engagements to assess and refactor applications for modern architectures such as microservices and containers.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and advisory services to engineers and project teams to align solutions with architecture and business strategy.
• Influence the future direction of enterprise architecture programs and define architecture and technology standards, reference architectures, and guidelines.

Qualifications & Experience

• Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect required.
• 10 or more years of design and implementation experience with distributed applications and systems, including 3 or more years hands-on architecting on AWS.
• 5 or more years of experience in enterprise data-center technologies and private cloud.
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations, IT transformations, and the business technology market, including working with sales and marketing teams.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, CI/CD, security, networking, SQL/NoSQL, cloud delivery models, containerization, and PaaS platforms.
• Working knowledge of virtualization software such as VMware or KVM, scripting in languages such as Python or Java, and tools, including Jenkins, Git, and Terraform.

Reporting to cloud practice leadership, the AWS Architect serves as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms within ECS, an AWS Premier Partner supporting Federal Government Cloud-First mandates. Partnering with clients from CTO level down, this role delivers thought leadership, migration strategy, and hybrid cloud integration that maximize performance, agility, and cost optimization for enterprise-class government systems.

Primary Duties

• Provide thought and technical design leadership to cloud solutioning.
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms.
• Test and assess chosen products and make recommendations.
• Act as a change agent for technologies and processes to maximize performance, availability, business agility, and cost optimization.
• Lead cloud application architecting sessions evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and technology.
• Execute prototypes and technical feasibility assessments for cloud solutions.
• Migrate existing on-premises applications to cloud using structured methods and best practices.
• Integrate multiple products across cloud and hybrid environments and develop migration processes and managed service procedures.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or similar preferred, with Master's degree preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, and Microsoft MCSD Azure preferred.
• 10 or more years of experience planning, architecting, and engineering enterprise-class systems and services, with proven success consulting to CTO-level clients.
• Proven experience in assessment, documentation, and communication of cloud solution value to diverse stakeholders.
• A track record of successful migration and change management.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking including VPCs, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Understanding of SOA, REST, SDLC, and cloud security.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Hands-on experience in cloud orchestration tools and automating production workloads.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to anticipate risks, balance competing priorities, and drive change initiatives.

Sitting at the intersection of pre-sales advisory and technical delivery, the AWS Architect develops cloud environment architectures and automation recommendations to meet customer requirements while providing Level 4 support to the Operations team. Operating across client engagements, architecture reviews, and cost optimization initiatives, this role ensures implementations remain aligned with both client expectations and internal delivery assurance standards.

Duties

• Develop technical solutions based on customer requirements and architect cloud environments with automation and optimization recommendations.
• Provide Level 4 technical support to the Operations team to resolve client incidents and requests in a timely manner.
• Perform periodic reviews of client infrastructure and identify opportunities for architecture, operations, or cost optimization.
• Provide architectural oversight for implementations, changes, and audits initiated by internal or client delivery assurance groups.
• Support pre-sales activities by conducting discovery workshops, gathering requirements, designing solutions, and preparing pre-implementation plans for new projects.

Requirements

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-300 and AZ-301) required.
• 3 or more years of support experience in multi-client or multi-platform environments with focus on middleware and database stack support.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts including routing, load balancing, VPN, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, and LDAP.
• Hands-on experience with at least two public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, covering networking, compute, storage, and managed services.
• Experience with automation platforms such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, database engines including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, and virtualization platforms such as VMware or KVM.
• Excellent presentation skills with comfort communicating to executives, IT management, and technical teams.
• Ability to document architecture in sufficient detail for implementation.

A key member of a federal client engagement team, the AWS Architect leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable cloud architectures supporting an enterprise-wide SAP S/4 HANA implementation across build, migration, automation, and production phases. Collaborating across senior management, industry executives, and technical staff, this role empowers colleagues and clients by translating complex AWS and SAP concepts into actionable strategies that deliver long-term program stability.

Functions

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable and resilient cloud architectures and applications on AWS.
• Advise on cloud strategies and capture requirements, translating them into design patterns and recommendations.
• Facilitate and lead systems integration and deployment of common infrastructure including DNS, AD, ADFS, firewalls, and proxies.
• Advise and assist on an enterprise-wide SAP S/4 HANA implementation across build, migration, automation, and production phases.
• Apply knowledge of cloud-native security controls, network boundaries, and AWS core services including databases, storage, and workflows.
• Liaise with senior management, industry executives, technical staff, and engineers while producing high-quality documentation.
• Stay current on emerging AWS products, features, and services and articulate AWS value in the context of SAP HANA.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience, with Master's degree preferred.
• AWS certification preferred.
• 5 or more years of experience on the AWS platform.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP.
• Experience with SAP S/4 HANA and Linux preferred.
• Experience with public-sector clients preferred.

Guiding enterprise clients through multi-cloud adoption depends on the AWS Architect, who connects cloud strategies to business objectives and articulates aligned proposals and statements of work as a trusted advisor. Based within the Cloud Strategy and Advisory practice, this role leads large-scale transformation engagements, manages cloud consultants, and builds C-level relationships to deliver measurable strategic, financial, and operational improvement.

Accountabilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, connecting cloud strategies to business objectives and articulating aligned proposals and statements of work.
• Participate in envisioning future industry trends and strategic technology domain solutions.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders up to C-Level and assist in defining the Cloud Strategy portfolio of offerings.
• Establish client value propositions tied to strategic, financial, and operational metrics for near and long-term business improvement.
• Contribute to external eminence through conferences and seminars and drive professional development of Cloud Strategy and Advisory team members.
• Manage line and matrix responsibilities for cloud consultants while leading large-scale cloud transformation engagements.

Technical Qualifications

• AWS certification at Expert level required.
• Substantial experience as an Architect in major public cloud programs and large-scale digital transformation platforms.
• Deep consulting and leadership experience with a proven ability to define AWS platform architectures and roadmaps for enterprise clients.
• Deep knowledge of IaaS and PaaS services on AWS, including designing scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant architectures and DevSecOps on hybrid cloud.
• Experience in evaluating cloud application requirements and making architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning on AWS.
• Ability to work independently, lead others, and deliver large-scale cloud transformation
• Experience working with large enterprise clients across diverse cultural contexts.

As the AWS Architect, this role leads architectural planning, roadmap feature engineering, and DevOps for an AWS-hosted enterprise solution within Mastech Digital's software domain client environment. The engineering and product leadership team relies on this work to build a reliable, cloud services-based roadmap while driving continuous improvement, resource allocation, and simplification across critical systems.

Activities

• Lead architectural planning, roadmap feature engineering, and DevOps for a solution hosted on AWS.
• Define, evolve, and communicate the enterprise vision, mission, and strategy.
• Collaborate with product and technical leaders to build a cloud services-based roadmap.
• Implement engineering processes and policies that are easy to produce and have high reliability.
• Manage engineering documentation and system and design transfer to production or service.
• Estimate development effort, perform resource allocation, and plan implementations and system rollouts.
• Drive continuous improvements and identify opportunities for simplification and automation across critical systems.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical field, or equivalent related experience.
• AWS certification in Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator at associate or professional level.
• 8 or more years of engineering experience developing and delivering complex enterprise solutions across public, private, and hybrid clouds.
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and DevOps methodologies, modern CI/CD practices, and code versioning using tools such as GitHub.
• Knowledge of microservices, application modernization, networking design, including DNS and firewalls, and infrastructure management platforms.
• Strong project management, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines under tight time constraints.