Senior AWS Pre-Sales Architect: Drive Cloud Strategy

Aligned Technology Group; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Aligned Technology Group is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to act as a technical advisor across sales, delivery, and success teams. You will help clients envision, architect, and adopt AWS solutions that accelerate outcomes.

The role blends pre-sales, architecture, and customer engagement, requiring strong communication with senior stakeholders and hands-on cloud design across migrations and modernization projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of AWS cloud architecture, pre-sales, or cloud consulting experience.
• Proven ability to lead technical discovery, design, and proposal development.
• Excellent presentation skills with C-level engagement experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS compute, networking, storage, and database services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of security, compliance, and governance in AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sales engagements and design AWS-based solutions delivering measurable value.
• Conduct technical discovery to identify requirements and success criteria.
• Architect secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS solutions.
• Deliver compelling technical presentations, demos, and PoCs.
• Collaborate with sales, delivery, and managed services teams.
• Translate requirements into SOWs and architectural blueprints.
• Maintain deep AWS expertise and provide future-state roadmaps.
• Support proposal development and pricing with technical content.
• Ensure smooth handoffs with delivery engineers and customers.

Skills

AWS architecture

Pre-sales

Executive communication

Solution design

Cost optimization

Security & governance

Cloud strategy

Technical leadership

Delivery coordination

Business acumen

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Well-Architected Tool

Cost Explorer

Job description

Aligned Technology Group is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to act as a technical advisor across sales, delivery, and success teams. You will help clients envision, architect, and adopt AWS solutions that accelerate outcomes.

The role blends pre-sales, architecture, and customer engagement, requiring strong communication with senior stakeholders and hands-on cloud design across migrations and modernization projects.