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As an experienced AWS Architect with leadership and people-management experience, your primary responsibility will be to design and steer the cloud architecture strategy, drive execution, and manage a team of architects/engineers. You will act both as a technical visionary and as a manager who can mentor, coordinate, make trade-off decisions, and ensure delivery excellence. Your role goes beyond technical excellence; it is about anchoring BOTs venture-class GDC model for Caylent. **Roles & Responsibilities:** - **Architecture & Technical Leadership** - Define, design, and validate scalable, secure, high-performance cloud architectures on AWS to meet business needs. - Evaluate existing infrastructure, identify gaps, and propose improvements and migrations to AWS. - Lead proof-of-concept (PoC) implementations, prototyping, and validate new AWS services for use. - Oversee selection of tools, frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) (e.g., AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK). - Monitor architecture health (scalability, fault tolerance, cost optimization, security) and continuously iterate. - Engage with stakeholders (product, business, operations, security) to translate high-level requirements into cloud solutions. - **Management & Team Leadership** - Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of cloud architects and engineers. - Define team goals, performance metrics, and growth plans. - Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and architectural thinking. - Drive cross-team collaboration (DevOps, SRE, Security, Application teams) to align on cross-cutting concerns. - **Operational Excellence & Governance** - Define cloud governance policies: IAM, resource tagging, cost controls, compliance, and security. - Monitor and optimize the cost, utilization, and performance of AWS services. - Set up logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, etc.). - Ensure security best practices: network design, encryption, least privilege, vulnerability scanning, compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI as relevant). - **Stakeholder Engagement & Strategy** - Interact with senior leadership, product owners, and business stakeholders to align cloud strategy with business goals. - Make trade-off decisions (usability, cost, performance, security) in ambiguous settings. - Stay informed about AWS service updates & roadmap; assess how they can benefit your organization. **Requirements:** - **Qualifications & Skills** - Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - Extensive hands-on experience (8+ years) designing and implementing cloud solutions, especially on AWS. - Proven experience in a leadership or technical management role (managing architects, engineers). - Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, etc.). - AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer). - Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and containers. - Experience in compliance frameworks relevant to your domain (e.g., GDPR, PCI, HIPAA). - Consultancy/advisory experience. In addition to the above responsibilities and qualifications, the success of your role will be measured by various factors such as the recognition of India GDC as a venture-class hub, seamless collaboration between Caylent teams, building a resilient talent pipeline, and anchoring GDC culture in Caylent's values and BOTs venture studio DNA. If you are looking to play a pivotal role in shaping a rapidly growing venture studio with Cloud-driven digital transformation, thrive in a collaborative and innovative environment, seek professional development opportunities, and competitive benefits, then you may be a great fit for this position.,
