Solution Architect - AWS
First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
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.
Skills
Solution Design, Solution Architect, AWS, Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Observability Services, Native Cloud, API Gateway, Aurora CosmoDB, DynamoDB, Monitoring Tools