Senior Cloud Architect

📋 Job Overview

The Senior Cloud Architect is the senior technical voice on customer engagements — shaping technical strategy, earning the trust of the customer's technical leadership, and turning ambiguous business problems into an executable AWS architecture and delivery plan. The work is predominantly business acumen and consulting, with architecture and hands-on technical depth as the foundation that makes the advice credible. You bring a strong balance of technical, professional, and leadership skills: enough depth to review designs and IaC and go deep in a design session, and enough presence to drive a room of senior stakeholders to a decision.

🏢 About Megazone Cloud

Our Product is Our People: We live by this. We invest in people who invest in themselves. Your growth is our growth. True Servant Leadership: Our CTO leads with a "force multiplier" philosophy. Management is here to empower you and clear roadblocks, not to micromanage. We won't ask you to do anything we're not willing to do ourselves. Flat Organization, Real Impact: Your voice and designs will directly shape our technical roadmap and our clients' success. You'll work on the latest tech to solve real problems. A "Learn-from-it" Culture: We're moving fast and building new things. We believe mistakes are learning opportunities, not failures.

🎯 The Role

The shape of the role varies by engagement. On larger programs, you'll step in as the Delivery Tech Lead — the senior technical leader of a workstream, working alongside AWS Professional Services. You'll coordinate with the customer's technical leadership, develop the engagement's technical strategy, partner with the Engagement Manager on an achievable project plan and adequate staffing, and mentor consultants to milestone delivery. On smaller AWS migration projects, you'll work hands-on alongside our offshore delivery team — designing and building directly, not only directing. You'll work across a broad stakeholder set: AWS consultants, Delivery Practice Managers, Engagement Managers, Chief Architects, partner consultants, and customer technical staff.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical advisor to customer leadership, translating architecture, risk, and trade-offs into business decisions.
• Drive discussions to an outcome across technical and non-technical audiences; recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and emphatically.
• Own the engagement's technical strategy and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
• Frame options with clear cost, risk, and time-to-value trade-offs; shape scope, estimates, and staffing models.
• Partner with the customer's technical leadership and the Engagement Manager on an achievable project plan and adequate staffing.
• Mentor consultants toward project tasks and milestones; own quality and completion of the engagement.
• Operate two-in-a-box with AWS Professional Services and partner consultants in an Agile delivery model.
• Set the target architecture and standards the delivery team builds against; review designs, code, and IaC personally.

🎁 Benefits

Base Salary $175K – $215K. The above sets forth the annual base salary range in USD for this role exclusive of any discretionary bonus that may be awarded. Actual compensation will be based on an assessment of factors including the successful candidate’s location, experience, skill, and other job-related factors.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Megazone Cloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires.