Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS)

About the Role
The AWS Cloud Solutions Architect is a senior technical lead responsible for supervising AWS migration and transformation projects. This role ensures the delivery teams produce high-quality work, sets the technical direction, reviews and signs off on designs and deliverables, and intervenes in case of technical problems that teams cannot resolve independently. You will collaborate with delivery engineers, project managers, client stakeholders, AWS, and third-party vendors while adhering to AWS best practices along with the client's security and quality requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities

Migration Oversight

• Lead and oversee cloud migration activities across projects, tracking technical progress against scope, plan, and project objectives.
• Review migration assessments, wave plans, and the chosen migration approach for each workload (rehost, replatform, refactor, and the other 7 Rs).
• Review cutover, rollback, and hypercare plans before each migration wave, confirming technical readiness for go-live.
• Monitor technical risks and issues during execution and agree on mitigation actions with the delivery teams.

Design and Deliverable Review

• Review and approve solution designs (HLDs and LLDs), architecture diagrams, and technical standards produced by the delivery teams.
• Review project deliverables, including landing zone designs, migration runbooks, test plans, operational handover documents, and as-built documentation, for quality, completeness, and compliance with agreed requirements.
• Define review checklists, acceptance criteria, and quality gates for technical deliverables and track review findings through to closure.
• Ensure designs adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework across security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations.
• Confirm that security and regulatory controls are addressed in designs and evidenced in deliverables.

Technical Guidance

• Provide architectural guidance and AWS best practices to delivery teams throughout the migration and transformation lifecycle.
• Advise on key technical decisions, including account structure and landing zone, network and hybrid connectivity, identity, backup and disaster recovery, and tooling.
• Coach engineers and solution leads throughout design reviews and share lessons learned and reusable patterns across projects.

Stakeholder and Vendor Collaboration

• Collaborate with project teams, client stakeholders, AWS, and third-party vendors to resolve technical challenges and blockers.
• Represent the technical position in steering and status meetings, explaining design trade-offs and risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Serve as the escalation point for technical disagreements and decisions on the projects overseen.

Technical Governance

• Support technical governance, design reviews, and decision-making across cloud projects, maintaining a record of key decisions and their rationale.
• Contribute to the practice's review templates, standards, and reference architectures.
• Assist in pre-sales efforts with solution reviews and technical input to proposals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or IT consulting, with at least 4 years on AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience overseeing or leading the technical delivery of enterprise migrations to AWS.
• Proven experience reviewing and approving solution designs and technical deliverables.
• Broad knowledge of AWS services across compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and security, enabling assessment of design quality.
• Strong understanding of migration methods and tooling and awareness of landing zone concepts.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices, sufficient to evaluate delivery teams’ applications.
• Experience managing technical risks and collaborating with vendors and client stakeholders.
• Strong written and spoken English skills, with the ability to provide clear, actionable review feedback.
• Proficiency in Arabic.

Preferred:

• AWS Specialty certifications (Security, Advanced Networking) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Familiarity with Saudi regulatory frameworks (NCA ECC/CCC, SAMA CSF, PDPL).
• Experience reviewing disaster recovery and business continuity designs.
• Familiarity with core infrastructure services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, ADFS) and enterprise databases (Oracle, SQL Server, SAP on AWS).
• Multi-cloud exposure (Google Cloud, Azure).
• Consulting experience with government, banking, energy, or telecom clients in KSA or the GCC.

Additional Information

Key Competencies:

• Attention to detail: Identifies gaps, errors, and risks in designs and documents before they reach the client.
• Technical judgement: Evaluates options and makes informed technical decisions without executing the build work.
• Supervision: Directs and follows up on the work of multiple delivery teams simultaneously.
• Stakeholder management: Builds trust with client teams, vendors, and project managers to manage competing priorities.
• Communication: Provides clear and constructive feedback on reviews while explaining trade-offs simply.
• Problem-solving: Assists teams in navigating complex technical issues and ensures project delivery progresses.

Contract Type:
Permanent contract