About 10Pearls 10Pearls is an end-to-end digital technology services partner helping businesses utilize technology as a competitive advantage. We help our customers digitalize their existing business, build innovative new products, and augment their existing teams with high-performance team members. Our broad expertise in product management, user experience/design, cloud architecture, software development, data insights and intelligence, cyber security, emerging tech, and quality assurance ensures that we are delivering solutions that address business needs. 10Pearls is proud to have diverse clientele, including large enterprises, SMBs, and high-growth startups. We work with clients across industries including healthcare/life sciences, education, energy, communications/media, financial services, and hi-tech. Our many long-term, successful partnerships are built upon trust, integrity, and successful delivery and execution. Role Overview We are looking for an experienced AWS Architect with deep expertise in designing and executing large-scale on-premise to cloud migration initiatives. The ideal candidate will have 8–12+ years of experience in cloud architecture and infrastructure, with a proven track record of leading end-to-end migration strategies for enterprise environments. This role requires strong hands-on skills in AWS services, cloud-native design, hybrid architectures, and modernization approaches, along with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and drive complex migration programs to successful completion. Responsibilities - Own the technical roadmap, defining and implementing complex, scalable, and secure architecture across multiple projects. - Lead architecture reviews, ensuring the proposed solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements like scalability, performance, security, and maintainability. - Advise on the strategic integration of AI/GenAI technologies to improve system capabilities and deliver innovative business solutions. - Collaborate with business leaders and clients to align technology strategy with business objectives, translating complex architectures into clear, actionable plans. - Oversee the execution of technical designs, ensuring best practices in architecture, development, and DevOps (CI/CD, containerization, cloud infrastructure) are consistently followed across teams. - Act as a thought leader, identifying emerging technology trends (AI/GenAI, cloud, microservices) and advising the organization on their application. - Embrace and promote a consulting mindset, actively engaging with clients to understand their needs, deliver technical recommendations, and propose scalable, innovative solutions that create business impact. - Lead client engagements, offering technical expertise in high-level discussions, delivering architectural guidance and ensuring technical alignment with business goals. - Provide mentorship to architects and development teams, fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning. - Play a key role in recruiting top technical talent for the team, ensuring alignment with both technical expertise and organizational culture. - Serve as a strategic advisor on architecture decisions and thought leadership, continuously guiding teams and clients on technology best practices and innovations, including AI/GenAI integration were beneficial. - Collaborate with the sales department on presales activities to identify client needs and provide technical expertise during the sales process. Requirements - Education: Bachelor's or master's in computer science, Engineering, or related field. - 8-12 years of hands-on experience with AWS architecture, design, and deployment. - Strong experience leading large-scale on-prem to AWS migration projects (applications, databases, infrastructure). - Deep understanding of AWS core services: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route53, ELB, EKS/ECS, etc. - Expertise in migration tools such as AWS Migration Hub, CloudEndure, DMS, SMS, and Server Migration Service. - Strong knowledge of networking concepts: VPN, Direct Connect, subnets, routing, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity. - Experience with configuring site to site and point to site VPN between AWS and on premises network - Experience with automation and IaC using CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK. - Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), microservices, and modernization approaches. - Experience designing solutions with high availability, scalability, security, and cost optimization. - Built and executed end-to-end migration strategies (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc.). - Conducted cloud readiness assessments, architecture reviews, and gap analysis. - Experience with data migration (databases, storage, workloads). - Hands-on expertise in application modernization where required. - Strong understanding of AWS security best practices: IAM roles, encryption, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, SCPs. - Familiarity with compliance standards such as ISO, SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR (as relevant). - Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (dev, infra, security, business teams). - Strong communication skills to present architecture decisions and migration plans. - Experience working in Agile environments. - Ability to mentor engineering teams on cloud best practices. - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (strong preference). - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or any specialty certification (Security, Networking, etc.) is a plus.