Principal AWS Cloud Architect

Frisco, TXfull timeOn Site

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$170k–$195k

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Megazone The Principal AWS Cloud Architect leads technical strategy and delivery for cloud engagements, mentoring teams and driving architecture decisions. This role involves hands-on design, build, and migration activities, as well as coordinating offshore teams and ensuring quality deliverables.

Responsibilities

The Principal AWS Cloud Architect is a lead-level technical role on our cloud engagements. You'll own the technical direction of a workstream or engagement end to end, working with the customer's technical teams to set strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
This is a leadership role that stays hands-on. You'll lead and mentor a blended onshore/offshore delivery team. When the project calls for it, you'll roll up your sleeves and build: designing landing zones, running migration waves, and writing and reviewing IaC yourself. You're equally comfortable leading a team of engineers or working independently as the sole architect on a project.
Technical Leadership & Strategy
Own the technical strategy for the engagement and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
Act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to decisions rather than leaving them open.
Recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience. Say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one.
Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade-offs considered and those deliberately deferred.
Set the engineering standard by example: review designs, code, and IaC personally.
Hands-On Delivery
Work independently as the sole architect on smaller or early-phase engagements, owning design and build without a supporting team.
Step in hands-on when the project needs it to:
build foundational environments

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceDemonstrated hands-on AWS depthStrong AWS networking fundamentals

Required

15+ years designing and operating infrastructure, including 5+ years in a lead or principal architect role on customer-facing engagements.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar.
Demonstrated hands-on AWS depth. You have personally built production systems, not only managed teams that built them, and can still do so today.
Proven ability to work independently as the sole architect on a project, from design through delivery.
Experience leading and mentoring offshore or distributed engineering teams, including delegating work, reviewing quality, and coordinating across time zones.
Experience setting technical strategy for an engagement and coordinating with customer technical leadership.
Hands-on experience building AWS foundational environments: Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture.
Demonstrated experience with large-scale, multi-wave cloud migrations.
Practical experience executing rehost and replatform migrations, and the judgment to recommend the right approach per workload.
Hands-on experience with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Migration Hub, and VM Import/Export.
Strong AWS networking fundamentals: VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, and DNS.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and AWS CDK) and at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).

Company

Megazone

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