Senior AWS Cloud Architect: Migration & Design Lead

Devoteam; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Devoteam in Saudi Arabia seeks an AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead migration and transformation projects, set technical direction, and review designs and deliverables alongside delivery teams and stakeholders.

You will work with project managers, client stakeholders, AWS and third-party vendors, ensuring security, quality and AWS best practices across workloads while guiding architecture decisions and governance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure or IT consulting, with at least 4 years on AWS.
• Experience overseeing or leading the technical delivery of enterprise migrations to AWS.
• Proven experience reviewing and approving solution designs and deliverables.
• Broad knowledge of AWS services across compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and security.
• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices, enough to review how delivery teams apply them.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Oversee cloud migration activities across projects, tracking progress against scope and objectives.
• Review migration assessments, wave plans and chosen migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor).
• Review cutover, rollback and hypercare plans before go-live and confirm readiness.
• Review designs, landing zone designs and runbooks for quality and compliance with requirements.
• Define review checklists, acceptance criteria and quality gates for deliverables, tracking findings to closure.
• Ensure designs follow the AWS Well-Architected Framework across security, reliability, performance, cost and operations.
• Provide architectural guidance and AWS best practices to delivery teams throughout the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with clients, AWS and vendors to resolve technical challenges and blockers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field

Tools

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Job description

Devoteam in Saudi Arabia seeks an AWS Cloud Solutions Architect to lead migration and transformation projects, set technical direction, and review designs and deliverables alongside delivery teams and stakeholders.

You will work with project managers, client stakeholders, AWS and third-party vendors, ensuring security, quality and AWS best practices across workloads while guiding architecture decisions and governance.