AWS Solution Architecture Consultant

Employment type: Full Time/Direct Hire

Location: Atlanta, GA Metro, Washington DC Metro, NYC, or Richmond, VA and surrounding areas

Location Type: Hybrid - Home Office/Local Ippon office

The Ippon story started in 2002 in Paris, France. Our founder and CEO Stéphane Nomis used his unique experience as an international Judo champion to create a culture based on the sports values of ambition and excellence. Our USA Headquarters office is located in Richmond, VA, with additional offices in New York, NY, Washington DC, and Atlanta, GA. We are a technology consulting firm specializing in helping accelerate our client’s digital roadmap in the areas of Product Management, Cloud, Data, and Software Engineering.

We have been an AWS Advanced Partner since 2016 with clear goals to become a Premier Partner in 2025.

We are seeking a Staff Cloud Engineering Consultant who will guide clients through cloud migration, modernization, and transformation, leveraging AWS, complementary ISVs such as Snowflake, and AI. This Advanced Individual Contributor role provides senior-level technical depth across pre‑sales, cloud migration strategy, modernization, and emerging GenAI/Bedrock opportunities. It requires a balance of deep technical expertise, strategic business insight, and consulting prowess.

• Provide deep expertise in AWS MAP programs, migration frameworks, and modernization pathways including rehost, replatform, and refactor strategies
• Architect and design cloud‑native solutions that optimize performance, cost, and security while ensuring alignment with clients’ strategic goals and product roadmap, emphasizing networking, IAM, governance, resiliency, and compliance
• Evaluate and recommend effective AWS cloud solutions and AI technologies for each project, ensuring scalability, security, and cost‑efficiency
• Identify and mitigate potential architectural and technological risks in cloud deployments, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable solutions
• Serve as a senior technical advisor for Bedrock, GenAI, and cloud‑native innovation opportunities, helping clients evaluate practical enterprise AI adoption
• Promote AWS best practices and standards in architecture, security, and deployment
• Document architectures, assessments, and recommendations in detailed, actionable reports that provide clear, business‑aligned strategies for cloud adoption and AI integration
• Help shape Ippon’s cloud and AI go‑to‑market strategy by identifying repeatable offerings, accelerators, and strategic partnership opportunities

• Lead technical discovery, assessments, and solution architecture for cloud migration and modernization opportunities across AWS and Azure environments
• Support pre‑sales engagements by translating client business needs into scalable technical strategies, solution designs, and Statements of Work
• Support clients in developing cloud architecture strategies centered on AWS, aligning solutions with business objectives to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency
• Support clients in developing migration and modernization journeys, leveraging AWS programs like MAP, the Well‑Architected Framework, or Immersion Days
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand their business challenges and objectives, ensuring solutions are tailored to real business needs while leveraging cutting‑edge AWS services

• Stay ahead of industry trends in the AWS portfolio, complementary ISVs, and cloud computing, driving innovation by sharing knowledge with clients and internal teams
• Be a visible thought leader by authoring blogs, presenting at industry conferences, and leading internal and external knowledge‑sharing initiatives
• Collaborate across teams to enhance and expand the organization’s cloud architecture capabilities
• Mentor consultants and engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, and best practice guidance

• 7+ years of cloud engineering or architecture experience with emphasis on migrations, modernization, and enterprise cloud strategy
• 5+ years of consulting experience…