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The Principal Consultant is a senior technical leader who partners closely with clients and internal teams to design and deliver modern cloud solutions. This role emphasizes deep AWS expertise while supporting clients that operate across multiple cloud platforms, including Azure and GCP. In addition to delivery leadership, this role plays a key part in pre-sales efforts by supporting the sales team with technical guidance, solution design, and client conversations. The Principal Consultant helps shape opportunities early, ensures proposed solutions are sound and achievable, and builds client confidence from the first interaction. This role is hands-on when needed, but primarily focused on architecture leadership, decision-making, and driving successful outcomes rather than day-to-day implementation.
Job Responsibility:
Serve as a senior technical advisor to client stakeholders, including engineering leaders, architects, and executives
Lead discussions around cloud strategy, platform design, and modernization approaches
Help clients define realistic roadmaps that balance business goals, security, cost, and operational maturity
Translate business problems into clear technical solutions that teams can execute
Partner with the sales team during pre-sales activities to support opportunity development
Participate in client discovery calls, technical deep dives, and solutioning sessions
Help define scope, architecture approach, assumptions, and risks during proposal development
Review and contribute to statements of work, ensuring technical accuracy and feasibility
Act as a trusted technical voice in early client conversations to build credibility and trust
Design and review enterprise-grade AWS architectures, including networking, identity, security, compute, and data services
Provide architectural guidance for clients operating in multi-cloud or hybrid environments
Set technical direction and guardrails for delivery teams across engagements
Ensure solutions align with AWS best practices, security standards, and client constraints
Guide clients in adopting infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and modern CI/CD practices
Advise on observability, reliability, and operational readiness, including logging, monitoring, and incident response
Help organization move from project-based delivery toward sustainable platform and product models
Mentor architects and senior engineers across projects
Serve as an escalation point for complex technical decisions
Contribute to internal reference architectures, standards, and accelerators
Support internal capability growth and consistency across cloud engagements
Requirements:
10 or more years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise systems
Strong background delivering consulting or professional services engagements
Experience working directly with client leaders and technical decision-makers
Comfortable balancing hands-on technical depth with strategic advisory responsibilities
Deep experience designing and operating solutions on AWS in production environments
Strong understanding of services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, and S3
Experience designing for security, high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
AWS certifications preferred, especially Solutions Architect Professional
Working knowledge of Azure and or GCP
Ability to compare cloud services, patterns, and tradeoffs across providers
Experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, even if AWS is the primary platform
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
Comfortable presenting to clients and facilitating technical discussions
Pragmatic mindset that balances ideal architecture with real-world constraints
Collaborative, calm under pressure, and trusted by both clients and internal teams