Solution Architect - AWS Platform

Solution Architect - AWS

Experience : 10+ Years

Location : Pune

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect - AWS to design scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services. The role will focus on translating business requirements into enterprise-grade architectures and providing technical leadership across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions on AWS.
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into robust cloud architectures.
• Define application architecture, integration patterns, API strategies, data architecture, and deployment approaches.
• Design and review solutions using AWS VPC, API Gateway, ALB/NLB, EKS/ECS/Fargate, ECR, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, ElastiCache, IAM, KMS, and WAF.
• Drive architecture decisions around scalability, performance, availability, disaster recovery, security, and cost optimization.
• Lead architecture workshops, design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture governance.
• Define cloud monitoring, logging, observability, and operational requirements.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, technical trade-offs, and opportunities for improvement.
• Work closely with Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Security, QA, Product, and Operations teams.
• Provide technical leadership during integration, production readiness, and complex production issues.
• Maintain architecture documentation, standards, technical decisions, and operational requirements.

Required Skills :

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, or architecture.
• 5+ years of experience in AWS / Cloud Solution Architecture.
• Strong experience designing AWS-hosted distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of AWS compute, networking, storage, databases, security, and messaging services.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, APIs, integration patterns, scalability, and high availability.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.

Good to Have :

• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect - Professional.
• Experience with CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or AWS X-Ray.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms.