Senior AWS Cloud Architect - Presales & Solutions Lead

Jenrec Recruitment; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Principal AWS Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud architecture across South Africa and the MEA region. You will govern AWS engagements, define target-state architectures, and drive security, cost efficiency, and automation using IaC and DevOps practices.

The role requires seasoned expertise in AWS, strong communication with executive stakeholders, and the ability to mentor teams while shaping cloud capability growth. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (required or strongly preferred).
• Deep expertise across AWS services including VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and AWS Backup.
• Strong experience designing enterprise networking, identity, security, and governance architectures within AWS.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, compliance frameworks, and operational monitoring solutions.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, solution presentation, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise-scale AWS solutions.
• Partner with sales and client stakeholders to develop cloud strategies, solution architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable cloud platforms using AWS best practices and Well-Architected Framework.
• Define target-state architectures covering networking, security, identity, observability, automation, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
• Develop and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to implement CI/CD and platform automation strategies.
• Drive cloud security, compliance, governance, and FinOps best practices.
• Perform architecture reviews and provide technical oversight throughout solution delivery.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, presenting technical solutions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to cloud capability development and thought leadership.
• Stay current with emerging AWS services, industry trends, and cloud-native technologies.

Skills

AWS Certified Pro

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security & Compliance

FinOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Splunk

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Principal AWS Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud architecture across South Africa and the MEA region. You will govern AWS engagements, define target-state architectures, and drive security, cost efficiency, and automation using IaC and DevOps practices.

The role requires seasoned expertise in AWS, strong communication with executive stakeholders, and the ability to mentor teams while shaping cloud capability growth. Hybrid working is offered.