Cloud Solutions Architect

Job: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days

Role Overview

• The Cloud Solution Architect Applications is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and architecture of cloud-native application solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS CDK, and Amazon Bedrock.
• This individual demonstrates strong technical leadership, deep cloud architecture expertise, and a service-oriented mindset to deliver scalable, secure, and modern application platforms.
• Responsibilities include defining application architecture strategy, standards, governance, and best practices, ensuring alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.
• This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to design, develop, modernize, and optimize applications leveraging microservices, serverless, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• The architect ensures solutions are highly available, secure, scalable, and cost optimized, while supporting enterprise digital transformation initiatives and long-term architecture goals.

Scope of Responsibility

• Will lead architecture and provide technical guidance to a team of engineers and developers across application platforms
• Complexity: High

Specific Duties/Accountabilities

Application Architecture & Cloud Design

• Define and maintain enterprise application architecture using AWS services including EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CDK, and Bedrock
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native solutions
• Establish architecture patterns (microservices, serverless, API-first, event-driven)
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and cloud strategy

Cloud-Native Application Enablement

• Architect and guide implementation of container-based applications using Amazon EKS
• Design serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and event-driven patterns
• Enable API-driven architectures using API Gateway
• Promote reusable frameworks and standard design patterns

DevOps & Automation

• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using AWS CDK
• Establish CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment
• Promote GitOps practices for Kubernetes (EKS) environments

Performance, Scalability & Reliability

• Design highly available, fault-tolerant application architectures
• Optimize performance and cost (auto-scaling, compute optimization, concurrency control)
• Implement monitoring and observability using AWS-native tools
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and system health metrics

Data Lake Architecture & Enablement

• Design and implement data lake architectures for centralized storage of raw and diverse datasets
• Enable schema-on-read and ELT-based processing models to support flexible analytics and AI use cases
• Support advanced use cases including machine learning, GenAI, and large-scale analytics workloads
• Ensure scalable and cost-effective storage using cloud object storage platforms
• Implement governance frameworks to prevent data quality issues and ensure discoverability

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure secure architecture using IAM, encryption, network isolation, and API security
• Enforce authentication, authorization, and data protection standards
• Align solutions with enterprise security policies and compliance requirements
• Establish governance for application, API, and AI workloads
• Ensure integrations comply with security, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Enforce data privacy, encryption, and access control standards
• Support audits by providing documentation, logs, and integration controls
• Maintain integration documentation, runbooks, and architectural diagrams

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in related field
• 12+ years of technical experience with cloud and application architecture
• 10+ years of experience designing AWS-based application solutions

Strong experience with:

• Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)
• AWS Lambda (serverless architecture)
• API Gateway (API lifecycle management)
• AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code)
• Amazon Bedrock (AI/GenAI application integration)
• Strong understanding of microservices, APIs (REST/GraphQL), and integration patterns
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Proven experience driving cloud-native application modernization

Additional Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional preferred)
• Experience with event-driven architectures (EventBridge, SQS, SNS)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems (SAP, middleware platforms preferred)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in cross-functional and global teams
• Proven ability to drive large-scale transformation initiatives