AWS Senior Solution Architect, Associate Director

About the role

Protiviti is hiring an Associate Director to lead its AWS Platform Engineering practice, combining technical and commercial leadership. The role sets architectural direction across strategic engagements, advises client C-level executives, mentors engineers and architects, and carries a formal sales quota. It is advertised for Washington DC / McLean and New York City.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex AWS engagements and advise CIO, CTO, CISO and other leaders on cloud strategy and major technology decisions
• Set architecture direction and engineering standards, and develop reusable reference architectures, frameworks and accelerators
• Mentor Solutions Architects, Senior Cloud Engineers and Cloud Engineers through design reviews and knowledge sharing
• Intervene in high-risk, complex delivery situations and ensure engagements meet client outcomes, security and quality standards
• Partner with AWS alliance and pre-sales leaders, and turn client needs into new service offerings and proposals
• Own or contribute to solutioning, estimation, executive presentations, proposals and statements of work, and maintain an assigned sales quota

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline such as MIS, IS or Computer Science
• 9+ years of experience in professional services or industry
• Experience leading complex cloud engagements and mentoring technical leaders
• Consulting, professional services or systems integration background strongly preferred

Required skills

• Enterprise AWS environments, IAM, VPC design, networking and security
• Infrastructure as Code (CDK or CloudFormation)
• API design and integration patterns (REST, event-driven)
• Amazon Bedrock (agents, knowledge bases, guardrails) and AWS Step Functions or similar orchestration
• ERP integration patterns (JDE, Oracle FBDI export format) and translating procurement workflows into architecture
• Experience leading agentic AI / GenAI builds