Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS)

About the job

At the company, we believe that technology, combined with strong human values, can actively drive change for the better. Discover how Tech for People is shaping the future, creating a positive impact on individuals and the world around us. With over 25 years of passion for technology and a presence in 18+ countries across EMEA and beyond, we are committed to leveraging innovation, expertise, and human-centric values to make a difference.

Company Culture & Values:

Culture:

• Fair and courageous: Everyone is treated fairly, which fuels bravery. We help our employees progress and congratulate those who deserve recognition.
• Ambition and results: We nurture ambition and are committed to achieving profitable growth while delivering value to our clients.
• Learning and innovating: Curiosity and learning stimulate innovation; we learn constantly to build partnerships of excellence.
• Caring and sharing: A caring attitude fosters collaboration, promoting support within our teams and ensuring positive working environments.

Values:

• Respect
• Frankness
• Passion

Job Description

The AWS Cloud Solutions Architect is a senior technical lead who supervises AWS migration and transformation projects. This role involves overseeing the delivery team's work, setting the technical direction, reviewing, and signing off on designs and deliverables, while also providing support in resolving technical problems.

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 more).
• Review cutover, rollback, and hypercare plans before each migration wave, confirming technical readiness for go-live.
• Monitor technical risks and issues during execution, and collaborate with delivery teams on mitigation actions.

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, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Define review checklists, acceptance criteria, and quality gates for technical deliverables, tracking review findings through closure.
• Ensure designs follow the AWS Well-Architected Framework across security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations.
• Confirm that security and regulatory controls are covered 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 regarding account structure, network and hybrid connectivity, identity, backup and disaster recovery, and tooling.
• Coach engineers and solution leads through design reviews, sharing 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.
• 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, documenting key decisions and their rationale.
• Contribute to the practice's review templates, standards, and reference architectures.
• Assist with pre-sales efforts when necessary 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 specifically on AWS.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Proven experience overseeing or leading technical delivery of enterprise migrations to AWS.
• Experience reviewing and approving solution designs and technical deliverables.
• Broad knowledge of AWS services across compute, storage, databases, networking, identity, and security.
• Understanding of migration methods and tooling and of landing zone concepts.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.
• Experience managing technical risks and working with vendors and client stakeholders.
• Proficient in English, both written and spoken, with the ability to provide clear and actionable review feedback.
• Arabic language skills.

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).
• 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.
• Technical judgment: Makes sound technical decisions without executing the build work.
• Supervision: Manages the work of multiple delivery teams simultaneously.
• Stakeholder management: Builds trust with clients, vendors, and project managers, managing competing priorities effectively.
• Communication: Provides clear review feedback and explains trade-offs simply.
• Problem-solving: Assists teams in navigating complex technical issues, ensuring project delivery continues.