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Stefanini Group is looking for Principal AWS Solution Architect - Cloud Advisory & Escalation for a globally recognized company! For interested applicants, click the apply button or you may reach out to Alfher Hidalgo at (248) 728-2627/Alfher.Hidalgo@stefanini.com for faster processing. Thank you!
Role: Principal AWS Solution Architect - Cloud Advisory & Escalation, Stefanini North America
Hiring driver: Siemens AWS Cloud Architecture & Engineering Retainer (Desigo CC building management platform, distributed retail estate) plus the wider Cloud & Infrastructure advisory pipeline
STEFANINI
North America | Cloud & Infrastructure Practice
Principal AWS Solution Architect
Cloud Advisory & Escalation
Practice
Cloud & Infrastructure, Stefanini North America
Reports to
Director, Presales Solution Architecture
Location
United States - remote, with occasional client travel
Travel
Limited. Expected under 15%, primarily for client workshops and architecture review boards
Employment type
Full-time. Open to qualified subcontract and contract-to-hire candidates through approved vendor partners
Engagement model
Advisory retainer delivery across three to five concurrent enterprise accounts, plus presales solution support
Alternate titles
Senior AWS Solutions Architect · Principal Cloud Architect · AWS Cloud Advisory Architect
Posting date
August 17, 2026
- Summary
Stefanini North America is hiring a Principal AWS Solution Architect to serve as the senior technical advisor of record for enterprise clients who operate their own AWS environments and need architectural judgment, escalation depth, and strategic direction they do not have in-house.
This is a consulting and advisory role, not a build role. You will not be the person provisioning infrastructure day to day. You will be the person a client''s operations team calls when the decision is architectural, the change is significant, the incident is serious, or the cost curve has started bending the wrong way. Your influence comes from judgment, written clarity, and earned trust rather than from administrative control of the environment.
- Responsibilities
2.1 Strategic advisory and architecture ownership
- Serve as the named lead architect of record for assigned advisory accounts, maintaining relationship and technical continuity across the full engagement term rather than rotating in and out.
- Own the architectural decision record for each account - decisions taken, alternatives considered, rationale, trade-offs accepted, and the conditions under which a decision should be revisited.
- Lead formal AWS Well-Architected Reviews across all pillars, and convert findings into a prioritized, effort-estimated remediation backlog the client can actually sequence and fund. A flat findings list is not an acceptable output.
- Develop and maintain multi-year technical roadmaps that account for the client''s commercial model and delivery constraints, not only the technically ideal end state.
- Provide architectural direction on scalability, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery for stateful enterprise workloads, including recovery objective definition and recovery test design.
- Provide network architecture direction for hybrid and widely distributed estates - transit and routing domain design, private and site connectivity at scale, and segmentation patterns appropriate where operational technology and information technology environments meet.
- Conduct security architecture assessments covering identity and access design, network segmentation, administrative access patterns, detection and response tooling, and overall posture.
- Lead cloud financial management work: cost allocation and tagging strategy, commitment planning, and unit-economics modelling - including per-site or per-unit cost models where a client resells a cloud-hosted service to their own customers.
- Review infrastructure-as-code strategy, module structure, state management, pipeline design, and drift control, and advise on improvement.
2.2 Client consulting and relationship
- Act as the single point of technical trust for each assigned account, at both engineering and executive level.
- Translate architecture into commercial consequence. You will be expected to explain to a non-technical executive why an architectural choice affects margin, risk, or contractual commitment, in language that survives being repeated to their own leadership without you in the room.
- Deliver unwelcome recommendations without damaging the relationship. A meaningful part of this role is telling a client that what they want to do is a mistake and remaining the person, they call next time.
- Run design and review sessions with the client''s own engineers present, deliberately building their capability rather than creating dependency on you.
- Scope discrete project work into short written work orders with hour estimates, approved by the client before work begins.
- Manage retainer consumption transparently - forecast burn-down, flag exhaustion risk in the month it becomes visible, and never let a client be surprised by their own consumption.
- Chair recurring architecture review boards and monthly operating reviews with client technical and commercial stakeholders.
2.3 Escalation and incident leadership
- Participate in a senior escalation rotation, including on-call coverage for severity-one events on accounts contracted for twenty-four-hour response.
- Take technical command on incident bridges in environments you do not operate. This is a distinct and uncommon skill. You will be advising a client''s operations team under time pressure, with incomplete information, no administrative authority, and a commercial relationship at stake.
- Lead root cause analysis after significant incidents and produce written analysis suitable for the client to share with their own customers and executives.
- Provide standby and guidance during critical maintenance windows and major change implementations.
- Maintain enough working familiarity with each account''s environment that an escalation does not begin with an orientation session.
2.4 Written deliverables
This role produces documents. Written output is a primary deliverable, not an administrative afterthought, and the quality of it is a substantial part of how performance is assessed.
- Current-state architecture documentation and diagrams.
- Well-Architected Review findings reports with prioritized remediation roadmaps.
- Escalation runbooks and responsibility matrices (RACI: responsible, accountable, consulted, informed) agreed jointly with client operations teams.
- Cost and unit-economics models with scaling forecasts.
- Root cause analyses and post-incident reports.
- Every deliverable is written to be owned and used by the client''s team after the engagement, not to demonstrate the author''s expertise.
2.5 Practice development and presales
- Support presales pursuits as senior technical authority: discovery calls, solution shaping, technical proposal content, effort estimation, and client-facing technical presentations.
- Contribute reusable intellectual property to the Cloud & Infrastructure practice - reference architectures, assessment frameworks, questionnaires, estimation models, and delivery accelerators.
- Serve as named backup architect on peer accounts, attending their governance sessions so that continuity coverage across the practice is real rather than nominal.
- Mentor mid-level cloud engineers and architects through design review, pairing, and structured feedback.
- Contribute to hyperscaler partner relationships, including funding program qualification and partner competency requirements.