Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Platform Engineering

About the role

Protiviti is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to provide technical and commercial leadership for its AWS Platform Engineering practice. The role sets architectural direction across strategic engagements, advises client C-level executives on cloud strategy, mentors engineers and architects, and carries a formal sales quota. It is advertised for Indianapolis, with additional locations in Cincinnati, Columbus and Minneapolis.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex AWS engagements and advise CIO, CTO, CISO and other engineering leaders on cloud strategy and major technology decisions
• Establish reusable reference architectures, engineering standards, accelerators and intellectual property
• 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 technical 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 shaping cloud transformation estimates
• Experience in consulting, professional services or systems integration strongly preferred
• Has led agentic AI / GenAI builds before, not just chatbots

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
• Data architecture for agent knowledge bases, and ERP integration patterns (JDE, Oracle FBDI export format)
• Consulting economics, delivery risk, scope management and commercial decision making