AWS Architect

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Senior AWS Solution Architect with a strong foundation in application development and enterprise cloud architecture. The ideal candidate will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions while driving cloud strategy, innovation, and team capability building. This role blends deep hands-on AWS expertise with a strong understanding of modern application architectures, DevOps practices, and client engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the AWS architectural roadmap and strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Define and implement best practices for AWS architecture design, deployment, and operations.
• Design highly available, scalable, and cost-effective AWS solutions meeting business requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and business units, to align AWS solutions with organizational goals.
• Analyse complex technical issues, provide recommendations, and lead the resolution efforts for AWS-related challenges.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, reports, and presentations for stakeholders.
• Build capabilities, offerings, service accelerators and differentiators.
• Build a go-to-market strategy that highlights our cloud offerings that best support our customers' challenges.
• Innovation and Thought leadership, bringing out white papers, blogs, presentations, and collaterals.
• Responsible for delivering solutions architecture for major clients.
• Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales & post-sales).
• Be client CIO/CTO's trusted advisor.
• Pre-sales / post-sales (play an active role in winning business).
• Build and grow relationships with AWS and alliance partners to expand our relationship, offerings, and revenues.
• Build relationships with key client decision makers and influences in partnership with sales and marketing.
• Deliver superior value and conduct project reviews.
• Enable teams to deliver better value in projects.
• Coaching, Mentoring and Provide team a clear direction.

Should be hands on:

• Takes ownership for building AWS capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of working.
• Improve architecture skills across all team members.
• Ensure team members are happy through continuous engagement.
• Help in career progression of the team.

Skills & Experience:

• Expertise in designing high-level, enterprise grade solution architecture.
• Ability to manage estimates, tasks, escalations, risks/issues.
• Ability to clearly articulate concepts to people with varying technical background.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - professional, certification.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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