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 that the work produced by the delivery teams meets quality standards, sets the technical direction, reviews and signs off designs and deliverables, and assists teams when they encounter technical challenges. You will collaborate with delivery engineers, project managers, client stakeholders, AWS and third-party vendors while upholding AWS best practices and complying with client security and quality requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Migration Oversight

  • Lead and oversee cloud migration activities across multiple projects, tracking technical progress against scope, plan and project objectives.
  • Review migration assessments, wave plans, and the chosen migration approach (rehost, replatform, refactor, etc.) for each workload.
  • Review cutover, rollback and hypercare plans before each migration wave, confirming technical readiness for go-live.
  • Monitor technical risks and issues during execution, agreeing on mitigation actions with 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 such as 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, tracking review findings through closure.
  • Ensure that designs adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework across security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations.
  • Confirm that security and regulatory controls are adequately covered in designs and documented 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 regarding account structure, networking, identity, backup and disaster recovery, and tooling.
  • Coach engineers and solution leads during design reviews, sharing lessons learned and reusable patterns across projects.

• Stakeholder and Vendor Collaboration

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

• Technical Governance

  • Support technical governance, design reviews, and decision-making across cloud projects, keeping a record of key decisions and their rationale.
  • Contribute to the practice’s review templates, standards, and reference architectures.
  • Support pre-sales efforts as needed with solution reviews and technical input for 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 a minimum of 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.
• Knowledge across a broad range of AWS services, including compute, storage, databases, networking, identity, and security, to assess the quality of designs.
• Understanding of migration methods, tooling, and landing zone concepts.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices sufficient to review their application by delivery teams.
• Experience managing technical risks and collaborating with vendors and client stakeholders.
• Strong written and spoken English, 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.
• Knowledge of 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).
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Google Cloud, Azure).
• Consulting experience with government, banking, energy, or telecom clients in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Additional Information
Key Competencies:

• Attention to detail: Identifying gaps, errors, and risks in designs and documentation before they reach the client.
• Technical judgement: Evaluating options and making sound technical decisions without performing the build work.
• Supervision: Directing and following up on the work of multiple delivery teams simultaneously.
• Stakeholder management: Building trust with client teams, vendors, and project managers while managing competing priorities.
• Communication: Providing clear, constructive review feedback and simplifying design trade-offs for various audiences.
• Problem solving: Assisting teams in overcoming complex technical challenges while maintaining project delivery momentum.