Senior Cloud Architect — Managed Services, Flexible Hours

Amazon Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect III to lead strategic discussions with enterprise customers and guide complex migrations to AWS.

You will partner with the AWS Business Development team to shape adoption in key industry verticals and drive architectural excellence in customer engagements. The role requires deep cloud engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable cloud solutions, including well-architected

Qualifications

• Deep technical skill in infrastructure, software architecture and cloud computing.
• Customer-facing skills from presales or consultancy roles.
• Ability to think strategically about solutions to business, product, and technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Support the AWS Business development team to help formulate a strategy to help the adoption of AWS within the focus industry verticals.
• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Help educate enterprise customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Help provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs and whitepapers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Customer facing

Strategic thinking

Tech trends awareness

Tools

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect III to lead strategic discussions with enterprise customers and guide complex migrations to AWS.

You will partner with the AWS Business Development team to shape adoption in key industry verticals and drive architectural excellence in customer engagements. The role requires deep cloud engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable cloud solutions, including well-architected