HCL Technologies - AWS Solution Architect

HCL Cloud CoE (Practice) team is looking for experienced customer-focused AWS Solution Architect with technical depth and architecture skills. In this role, you'll work closely with pre-sales, business units and engineering on some of HCL's largest and most strategic customer engagements to help identify, define, and architect solutions on AWS. Specifically, you will be part of customer engaging team of technical PMs and engineers responsible for implementing new deployments and execute POCs and pilot migration projects etc. Ideally candidates with exposure in Global markets across US, UK, Continental Europe, APAC including Indian market will be preferred.

Position - Solutions Architect - AWS

Designation - Solutions Architect , Chief Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions.

- Collaborate with network, security, and application architects and SMEs to develop enterprise grade solutions.

- Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

- Draft technical solution for migration, multi account multi region deployments, modern architecture, AWS Landing zone, control tower.

- Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge.

- Draft hybrid connectivity and networking landscape for the clients onboarding to AWS.

- Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.

- Drive architectural decisions from Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation lens.

- Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.

- Define long term cloud strategy and enhancement roadmap.

- Develop test plan and testcases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration or greenfield deployment.

- Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met.

- Consult for optimal design of environments, analysing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.

- Act as a subject-matter expert on AWS and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.

Mandatory Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, MCA or a related field.

- Subject matter level expertise on AWS Network & Security, AWS Compute (EC2) & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring, AWS Governance & Cost Management, migration, DevOps.

- Rich experience in Migration projects and good knowledge of migration tools (native and third party) like CloudEndure, MGN.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., Terraform, CloudFormation etc)

- Configuration management using Ansible and/or Chef/Puppet, Shell, PowerShell.

- Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3)

- Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.

- Knowledge of Kubernetes and docker administration (EKS and ECS).

- Good architectural knowledge to design, build AWS Cloud Native solutions and integrating 3rd party tools required for customer delivery/ Cloud estate.

- Experience in PaaS services like RDS, Lambda, API gateway, Redshift, Glue etc.

- Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.

- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

- Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.

- Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)

Mandatory Certifications:

- AWS Certified Solution Architect-Professional Level

- AWS Certified DevOps Professional

- AWS Specialty Certification - Networking or Security (Either 1 will do)

- AWS Certified developer/Architect/Sysops associate.