AWS Solution Architect

Job TitleJob Overview: Pay Range: $65.00hr - $70.00hrRequirement/Must Have:12+ years of IT industry experience with significant experience in cloud and solution architecture.Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, cloud-native patterns, networking, security, integration, data, and DevOps.Experience delivering enterprise migration, modernization, or greenfield cloud programs.Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, architecture documentation, risk management, and technology governance.Strong verbal and written communication skills.Excellent communication and presentation skills.Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.Responsibilities:Define end-to-end AWS solution architectures aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.Create current-state, target-state, integration, deployment, network, security, and data architecture views.Select fit-for-purpose managed AWS services and define reusable architecture patterns.Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, design decisions, and implementation guardrails.Design solutions using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.Apply AWS Well-Architected principles across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.Design multi-account, network segmentation, identity, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability approaches.Assess application portfolios and define migration or modernization strategies.Develop cloud migration roadmaps, landing-zone requirements, dependency plans, and cutover considerations.Guide refactoring toward microservices, containers, serverless, event-driven, and API-led architectures where appropriate.Embed security by design, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and compliance controls.Define governance guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement, service standards, and architecture decision records.Drive cost transparency, sizing, consumption optimization, and architectural trade-off decisions.Define infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery approaches using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.Guide CI/CD, environment promotion, observability, release, rollback, and operational-readiness practices.Partner with engineering teams to automate repeatable provisioning and governance controls.Present architecture recommendations to Architecture Review Boards and executive stakeholders.Lead solution workshops and collaborate with application, security, data, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.Mentor technical teams and provide hands-on architecture guidance through delivery.Nice to Have:AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.AWS specialty certification in Security, Networking, Data Analytics, or DevOps is advantageous.TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.Manufacturing or automotive domain experience is an added advantage.Skills:AWS.EC2.ECS.EKS.Lambda.API Gateway.S3.RDS.Aurora.DynamoDB.CloudFront.Route 53.VPC.IAM.CloudWatch.EventBridge.SQS.SNS.Glue.Athena.Redshift.Terraform.CloudFormation.CDK.CI/CD.Microservices.Containers.Serverless.Qualification And Education:12+ years of IT industry experience.