Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Platform Engineering

About the role

Protiviti is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect (Associate Director) for its AWS Platform Engineering practice, reporting to the Infrastructure, Cloud and Security Engineering team. The role combines technical and commercial leadership: setting architectural direction, advising C-level executives, mentoring engineers, and owning a formal sales quota. It is advertised for Chicago, with additional locations listed.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex AWS engagements and advise CIO, CTO, CISO and other leaders on cloud strategy and major technology decisions
• Set architectural 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 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
• Experience leading complex cloud engagements and developing technical leaders
• Experience in consulting, professional services or systems integration strongly preferred

Required skills

• Deep expertise designing, implementing and governing enterprise AWS environments
• Amazon Bedrock (agents, knowledge bases, guardrails) and AWS Step Functions or similar orchestration services
• API design and integration patterns (REST, event-driven); data architecture for agent knowledge bases
• Infrastructure as Code (CDK or CloudFormation)
• IAM, networking and VPC design
• Familiarity with ERP integration patterns (JDE, Oracle FBDI export format) and translating procurement workflows into technical architecture
• Experience leading agentic AI / GenAI builds