Senior Application Architect, Professional Services
Summary
Senior cloud architect designs and implements scalable AWS solutions for enterprise customers, leading workshops and migrations while coaching teams on cloud-native best practices.
About
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring highly technical cloud appliction architects to help our customers develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver Pilot projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer.
Responsibilities
• Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
• Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized
• Working as a technical leader along side customer business, development and infrastructure teams
• Providing deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
• Advising and implementing AWS best practices
• Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment
• Delivering Pilot projects, topical workshops, and leading implementation projects
• Traveling to client locations and delivering professional services as needed
Requirements
• 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
• Experience architecting and optimizing applications for cloud environments (e.g., cloud-native design patterns, serverless, microservices)
• Experience in customer-facing technical delivery such as architecture reviews, workshops, or consulting engagements
Preferred
• Experience contributing to large-scale modernization or migration programs, with exposure to multi-vendor environments and AI-driven application development
Benefits
• Diverse and inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups
• Mentorship and career growth resources including knowledge-sharing programs
• Work/life balance with flexible working culture
• Opportunity to work with the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform