Protiviti
Protiviti
Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps organizations address complex challenges across finance, technology, operations, governance, risk management, and internal audit. Its teams combine consulting expertise with data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity capabilities to develop practical, tailored solutions for clients across industries. Protiviti’s work is centered on helping organizations adapt to changing business conditions, strengthen performance and resilience, and pursue sustainable growth.

Senior AWS Solutions Architect, Associate Director

Lead enterprise AWS architecture, engineering delivery, and sales as an Associate Director. Advise strategic clients and set engineering standards for Protiviti’s AWS Platform Engineering practice.

Description

  • Lead major technology consulting engagements and deepen relationships with strategic clients
  • Manage technology risks and shape practical solutions with analytics, automation, and modern tools
  • Direct technical and commercial work for the AWS Platform Engineering practice
  • Set architecture direction for strategic engagements and guide complex technical decisions
  • Resolve the most critical technical challenges across multiple engagements
  • Create repeatable delivery standards and develop engineers and architects
  • Build trusted relationships with senior clients and link delivery quality to account growth
  • Lead technical work on strategic, complex AWS client engagements
  • Define architecture direction and engineering standards for AWS Platform Engineering
  • Advise technology executives and architecture, infrastructure, and engineering leaders on cloud strategy and AWS decisions
  • Guide Solutions Architects and Senior Cloud Engineers through difficult architecture and delivery work
  • Assess and shape designs for AWS infrastructure, networking, security, resilience, migration, modernization, automation, and operating models
  • Step in when delivery risks or technical complexity are high
  • Keep engagements aligned with client goals, engineering quality, security needs, and sustainable operations
  • Create reusable reference architectures, engineering frameworks, accelerators, and intellectual property
  • Strengthen AWS delivery skills through mentoring, coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
  • Work with AWS alliance and pre-sales leaders to develop strategic opportunities
  • Turn client needs and delivery experience into new services and solution patterns
  • Support technical solution design, estimates, executive presentations, proposals, and statements of work
  • Sustain senior client relationships that generate further advisory and engineering work
  • Take ownership of or make a substantial contribution to sales quota, pipeline growth, and conversion
  • Represent AWS Platform Engineering with AWS technical teams, strategic clients, and industry stakeholders
  • Mentor teams, encourage collaboration, and contribute to training and development

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as MIS, information systems, or computer science
  • At least 9 years of experience in professional services or industry
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification required
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS Certified Security – Specialty certifications preferred
  • Extensive expertise in designing, implementing, and governing enterprise AWS environments
  • Ability to influence architecture and technology strategy in large or complex organizations
  • Experience leading multiple complex cloud engagements or portfolios of technical work
  • Strong architecture skills spanning infrastructure, networking, security, automation, resilience, governance, operations, and migration
  • Ability to advise senior executives while maintaining credibility with highly technical engineering teams
  • Substantial experience shaping and estimating complex cloud transformation engagements
  • Ability to identify client needs and turn them into valuable consulting and engineering work
  • Experience developing technical leaders and improving engineering standards across an organization
  • Strong grasp of consulting economics, delivery risk, scope management, and commercial decisions
  • Consulting, professional services, or systems integration experience strongly preferred
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock agents, knowledge bases, and guardrails
  • Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar orchestration services
  • Knowledge of API design and integration patterns, including REST and event-driven architectures
  • Knowledge of data architecture for ingesting and indexing procurement and logistics data in agent knowledge bases
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using CDK or CloudFormation
  • Knowledge of IAM, networking, and VPC design in AWS environments
  • Familiarity with ERP integration patterns, including JDE and Oracle FBDI export format
  • Ability to translate procurement workflows into technical architecture
  • Experience leading agentic AI or generative AI implementations beyond chatbots
  • Successful completion of a background check

Benefits

  • Annual bonus plan with a 16% target and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Adoption and fertility assistance
  • Up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with a 50% employer match on the first 6% of contributions
  • Choice Time Off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time; new hires receive up to 20 days per calendar year
  • Up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year
  • Hybrid arrangement combining in-person and remote work
  • Flexible work environment
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

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