AWS Solution Architect

Role: AWS Solution Architect

Location: Mississauga, ON

Fulltime

The AWS Solution Architect is responsible for designing governing and implementing scalable secure and cost effective cloud solutions on AWS The role provides technical leadership for cloud migration initiatives and infrastructure provisioning The architect collaborates with enterprise architects platform teams and engineering teams to establish cloud architecture standards migration patterns and best practices

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture Strategy

• Define end to end AWS architecture for applications data platforms and enterprise workloads
• Design scalable highly available secure and resilient cloud solutions aligned with business objectives
• Develop cloud migration strategies reference architectures and targetstate roadmaps
• Establish architectural principles standards and governance processes for AWS adoption
• Evaluate and recommend AWS services and emerging technologies to optimize platform capabilities

Migration Modernization

• Lead migration of applications ETL processes databases and data lake workloads from onpremises environments to AWS
• Define migration waves dependency management cutover strategies and rollback plans
• Identify opportunities for automation to accelerate migration delivery and reduce operational risk
• Support application teams during migration planning and execution

Data Analytics Architecture

• Design cloudnative data platforms leveraging services such as S3 Glue catalog EMR Redshift Lambda and Athena
• Define data ingestion transformation storage metadata and governance patterns
• Collaborate with Data Architects and Engineering teams to establish reusable frameworks for largescale data migration
• Ensure data quality lineage security and compliance requirements are incorporated into solution designs

Security Compliance

• Define security architecture aligned with enterprise policies and AWS best practices
• Design IAM network security encryption secrets management and audit controls
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational standards
• Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments for cloud solutions

DevOps Automation

• Promote Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools
• Define CICD architecture and deployment automation strategies
• Implement monitoring logging observability and operational excellence practices
• Drive adoption of automation frameworks to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with business product infrastructure security and delivery teams
• Present architecture recommendations technical roadmaps and design decisions to leadership
• Facilitate architecture review boards and design workshops
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to architects and engineering teams

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or related field.

10 years of IT experience with 5 years of AWS cloud architecture experience.

Strong experience designing enterprise scale cloud solutions on AWS.

Hands on experience with AWS services including.

o EC2

o S3

o VPC

o IAM

o Lambda

o Glue

o EMR

o Redshift

o RDS

o CloudWatch

o SNSSQS

o API Gateway

• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of networking security disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of DevOps CICD pipelines and automation practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.