Principal ProServe Cloud Architect, US - Financial Services; AWS

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to work closely with customers, understand their technical requirements and business objectives, and design and implement tailored cloud solutions. As a Pro Serve Cloud Architect you will play a key role in the sales process, providing technical expertise and guidance throughout the customer's cloud journey.

• Design complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions, estimates, and proposals to deliver customer business outcomes (CBOs).
• Provide technical guidance and best practices during the sales and implementation phases.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and Shared Delivery Teams to ensure proposed solutions are realistic and achievable.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions to address customer challenges.
• Share knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts.

• Experience managing and delivering large‑scale enterprise IT projects.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA).
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.

• Degree in advanced technology or AWS Professional level certification.
• Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape.
• Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR.
• Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
• Experience managing executive customer relationships and key business stakeholders.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets.
• Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments.

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