AWS IDP Practice Architect

Role Description

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution, and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others, and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success.

The Sr. IDP Practice Architect position is a leadership position in the organization responsible for managing multiple consulting and delivery projects and teams/programs. IDP architects have a particular focus on delivering Intelligent Document Processing solutions. The Sr. Architect provides consulting and delivery assurance of services for clients through a range of internal and external functions.

• Delivery Support: For new engagements, drive the transition phase and the setup of the engagement operating model, help define metrics, and support the delivery of defined statements of work.
• Engagement Leadership: Create the technical architecture for complex cloud systems, and lead the implementation team. Perform hands-on implementation tasks, and delegate other tasks to the rest of the implementation team. Guide the creation and delivery of project deliverables, ensuring they meet client requirements. Ensure the implementation team maintains a shared vision of the engagement goals.
• Client Interaction: Throughout the engagement, maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring their needs are met and addressing any issues that arise. Help surface opportunities for further client engagement.
• Additional Responsibilities:
  • Pre-Sales Support: Support Solution Architects and Solution Executives with technical opinions, methodology recommendations, work estimates, and solution support.
  • Practice Support: Provide input, expertise, and implement changes into the design, development, and improvement of service offerings and back-office procedures; assist in the research and development of new offerings and analyze competing offerings to ensure practice is current and competitive within the market; create and maintain practice artifacts that document key methods, processes, and delivery tools.
  • Human Resources: Assist with interviewing, hiring, and onboarding of project team members during initial engagement phase.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or other engineering or technical discipline is required.
• 9+ years' experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Cloud Architect or equivalent role.
• At least 5 years of AWS services experience is required.
• At least 3 years of cloud migration experience is required.
• At least 3 years of Microservices and Serverless experience is required.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.
• Strong track record of delivering projects of demonstrable complexity & scale.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS document processing services such as Textract, Kendra, Bedrock Data Automation, or Comprehend.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS AI/ML services including Bedrock, AgentCore, Amazon Q.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS Data services including S3/Athena, RDS, Lake Formation, Glue, Redshift or EMR.
• Hands-on knowledge of various AWS services like ECS, EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, DynamoDB, Systems Manager, API Gateway, ACM, Route53, CloudWatch.
• Experience with enterprise AWS services including Organizations, Control Tower, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect.
• Experience with strategizing and solution migration of legacy enterprise app (Lift & Shift/ Code Refactoring).
• Ability to lead adoption and mentor team members on modern DevOps and architectural concepts.
• Experience with source code and software collaboration technologies (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Artifactory).
• Experience configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CodePipeline).
• Strong infrastructure as code experience, preferably in CDK.
• Strong knowledge of container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud native frameworks.
• Strong hands-on scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Some knowledge of one application programming language like C#, Java, or JavaScript (Node.js).
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Ability to travel to client locations to deliver professional services, as needed.
• Work remotely with team members across a range of time zones and regions.
• Able to present designs to a varied audience across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to identify and address potential design or architecture issues, and work with uncertainty.
• Willing to lead discussions and challenge technical and design decisions where standards or best practices are not met.
• Implement central architecture standards, using JIRA, Confluence, etc., raising and tracking architecture tasks, dependencies, and risks for 2-3 inflight projects they are assigned to.
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on communicating technical requirements and solutions to internal and external audiences.
• Professional-level AWS certification is mandatory.

Requirements

• Master’s in Computer Science or other engineering or technical discipline is required.
• 12+ years' experience in information technology and/or professional services, with emphasis on subject matter expertise.
• 8+ years of Cloud Architecture experience.
• 8+ years of AWS experience.
• At least 5 years of cloud migration experience.
• At least 5 years of Microservices and serverless experience.
• Prior success in automating real-world production environments using Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible or cloud native equivalents.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Expertise in DevOps Technologies including but not limited to CI/CD frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, and monitoring and logging frameworks.
• Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision.
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available.
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents).
• Short and Long-Term Disability.
• Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Transportation Benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave).

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Dallas, TX.

The pay range for this position is $156000.00 - $234000.00/yr. We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc.

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 12, 2026.