Enterprise Chief Architect, AWS Platform

About the role

As an Enterprise Chief Architect, AWS Platform, you'll make an impact by serving as the trusted advisor client executives and Architecture Review Boards rely on to shape cloud strategy, de-risk major technology investments, and establish the architecture standards that guide the organization forward. You'll remain hands-on in the most critical design decisions while leading and mentoring a team of senior architects across Cloud, Network, and Security disciplines.

Your decisions will influence cloud platforms supporting critical business operations, large-scale modernization programs, and long-term enterprise transformation initiatives. You will be a valued member of the AWS Professional Services team and work collaboratively with client leaders, architects, and strategic partners to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative cloud solutions.

• Serve as the senior technical authority and primary point of accountability for AWS Infrastructure Delivery and Cloud Transformation initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, client leadership teams, and Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) on cloud strategy, modernization, security, governance, risk management, and technology investment decisions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10-15 Cloud, Network, and Security Architects across onsite and offshore delivery teams while raising architectural maturity and technical excellence across the organization.
• Establish enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, reusable design patterns, and AWS best practices that balance security, resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Stay hands-on by leading architecture reviews, validating solution designs, resolving complex technical challenges, and guiding strategic implementation decisions.
• Architect and govern enterprise-scale multi-account, multi-region AWS environments utilizing AWS Organizations and shared services models.
• Design advanced AWS networking architectures leveraging Shared Services VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, VPC Peering, Route 53, Private Link, Security Groups, Network ACLs, and AWS Network Firewall.
• Define secure hybrid-cloud connectivity strategies using AWS Direct Connect, VPN, and BGP routing to support enterprise workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Lead cloud security architecture and governance initiatives utilizing Service Control Policies (SCPs), AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, AWS Config, Network Firewall, and organizational guardrails.
• Drive threat modeling, compliance alignment, security reviews, audit readiness, and risk management programs across highly regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and standardization using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and AWS CDK while establishing deployment governance and automation frameworks.
• Drive cloud engineering excellence through Git Lab-based CI/CD automation, platform standards, and infrastructure lifecycle management practices.
• Partner with customer and engineering teams to lead migration, refactoring, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives across ECS, EKS, and Fargate environments.
• Define cloud-native architecture patterns and engineering standards that improve agility, accelerate delivery, and increase operational reliability.
• Architect resilience and business continuity solutions using AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), disaster recovery frameworks, and multi-region availability strategies.
• Provide architectural leadership for scalability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence across ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and Cloud Front environments.
• Create and maintain architecture roadmaps, executive presentations, reference architectures, governance documentation, and strategic technology recommendations.
• Collaborate with AWS, strategic partners, vendors, and customer stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives and long-term transformation goals.

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in Dallas, TX. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

• 15+ years of Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, and Enterprise Architecture experience.
• 8+ years of AWS architecture, cloud transformation, and technical leadership experience.
• Proven experience operating at the Principal Architect, Lead Architect, Chief Architect, or equivalent senior technical leadership level.
• Experience leading and developing teams of 10+ Architects within global delivery…