Location: Customer Site - Minimum of three days per week required onsite - Ideal candidate will live within 2 hours of Harrisburg, PA.
Employment Type: Full Time

Security Clearance: Ability to obtain Public Sector clearance preferred

We are seeking a Senior AWS Solutions Architect to serve as a Resident Architect for enterprise and public sector customer engagements.

The Resident Architect operates as a strategic cloud advisor rather than an implementation engineer, focusing on architectural governance, platform maturity, and adoption enablement rather than direct workload delivery.

The Resident Architect provides ongoing architectural advisory, governance, and optimization guidance following cloud implementation projects. This role sustains AWS adoption momentum by ensuring architectures remain aligned with AWS best practices, operational maturity goals, and regulatory requirements.

The Resident Architect works closely with customer engineering teams, AWS account teams, and Strategic’s Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to support cloud platform maturity, modernization initiatives, and operational readiness.

Unlike traditional staff augmentation roles, this position focuses on strategic advisory, architectural validation, and adoption enablement, helping organizations extend and operationalize AWS architectures implemented during major transformation programs.

Resident Architects operate within a structured advisory delivery model, typically supporting customers through monthly architectural capacity engagements.

Typical activities include:

This model enables customers to access senior cloud architecture expertise without requiring a full-time internal hire while maintaining alignment with AWS architectural best practices.

Required:

Preferred:

Experience supporting environments involving:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Executive-level communication skills
• Ability to influence architecture decisions
• Customer advisory mindset
• Strong technical documentation ability
• Ability to translate business outcomes into architecture strategies

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. Work is primarily performed in an office environment. Regularly required to sit. Regularly required use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms to handle objects, and operate tools, computer, and/or controls. Required to speak and hear. Occasionally required to stand and walk. Exposed to general office noise with computers, printers and light traffic. Job description is not all encompassing. Ad hoc duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate by management.

Benefits: Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Vision Insurance, Short and Long-term Disability Insurance, Pet Insurance, 401k Plan, Paid Vacation Days, Paid Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Wellness Incentives, Referral Bonuses

Screening Requirements: Background Check - must be US citizen and possess or be capable of obtaining a security clearance, Drug Testing