Principal AWS Cloud Architect

The Principal AWS Cloud Architect is a lead-level technical role on our cloud engagements. You'll own the technical direction of a workstream or engagement end to end, working with the customer's technical teams to set strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.

The Principal AWS Cloud Architect is a lead-level technical role on our cloud engagements. You'll own the technical direction of a workstream or engagement end to end, working with the customer's technical teams to set strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.

This is a leadership role that stays hands‑on. You'll lead and mentor a blended onshore/offshore delivery team. When the project calls for it, you'll roll up your sleeves and build: designing landing zones, running migration waves, and writing and reviewing IaC yourself. You're equally comfortable leading a team of engineers or working independently as the sole architect on a project.

• Own the technical strategy for the engagement and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to decisions rather than leaving them open.
• Recommend best‑fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience. Say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one.
• Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade‑offs considered and those deliberately deferred.
• Set the engineering standard by example: review designs, code, and IaC personally.

• Work independently as the sole architect on smaller or early‑phase engagements, owning design and build without a supporting team.
• Step in hands‑on when the project needs it to:
• build foundational environments
• execute migration waves
• troubleshoot replication and cutover issues
• write Terraform/CDK
• Lead remediation personally when a workstream needs stabilization.

• Lead and coordinate offshore engineering teams across time zones: assign and sequence work, set clear acceptance criteria, and run effective handoffs so progress continues around the clock.
• Review offshore deliverables (designs, IaC, runbooks, migration plans) for quality and consistency before they reach the customer.
• Mentor consultants and engineers to raise their technical depth, delivery discipline, and customer‑facing skill. Unblock them quickly and help them grow into more senior roles.
• Partner with the Engagement Manager and customer to build an achievable project plan with realistic milestones and dependencies.
• Confirm the team has the right skill mix and capacity; elevate gaps early.
• Coordinate technical execution alongside partner consultants and other vendor teams in an Agile delivery model.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of new delivery offerings, reusable assets, and best practices.

• Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
• Define and implement multi‑account strategy, covering:
• AWS Organizations and OU structure
• account vending
• SCPs
• centralized logging and security tooling
• Implement IAM and Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines across the account structure.

• Lead discovery and assessment of on‑premises estates: application dependency mapping, right‑sizing analysis, and migration wave planning.
• Determine the right migration strategy per workload (rehost or replatform), balancing speed, risk, and long‑term operating cost.
• Lead lift‑and‑shift replication of physical and VMware‑based servers into EC2 using AWS…