Ippon Technologies
Principal AWS Solution Architecture Consultant
Ippon Technologies, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383
Employment type: Full Time/Direct Hire
Location: Atlanta, GA Metro, Washington DC Metro, NYC, or Richmond, VA and surrounding areas
Location Type: Hybrid - Home Office/Local Ippon office
About Ippon:
The Ippon story started in 2002 in Paris, France. Our founder and CEO Stéphane Nomis used his unique experience as an international Judo champion to create a culture based on the sports values of ambition and excellence. Our USA Headquarters office is located in Richmond, VA, with additional offices in New York, NY, Washington DC, and Atlanta, GA. We are a technology consulting firm that specializes in helping accelerate our client’s digital roadmap in the areas of Product Management, Cloud, Data, and Software Engineering. We have been an AWS Advanced Partner since 2016 with clear goals to become a Premier Partner in 2025.
About the Position:
We are seeking a Principal AWS Solution Architecture Consultant who will be instrumental in guiding clients through their cloud migration, modernization and transformation journey, leveraging the power of AWS, complementary ISVs like Snowflake, and AI. This key role requires a balance of deep technical expertise, strategic business insight, and consulting prowess to help clients innovate, optimize, and transform their business operations through modern cloud technologies and AI-driven solutions.
Roles and Responsibilities
Support clients in developing cloud architecture strategies centered on AWS, aligning these solutions with clients' business objectives to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency.
Support clients in developing migration and modernization journeys, leveraging AWS programs like the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), Well-Architected Framework, or Immersion Days.
Architect and design cloud-native solutions that optimize performance, cost, and security while ensuring alignment with clients' strategic goals and product roadmaps.
Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand their business challenges and objectives, ensuring that solutions are tailored to address real business needs while leveraging cutting-edge AWS services.
Evaluate and recommend the most effective AWS cloud solutions and AI technologies for each project, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Identify and mitigate potential architectural and technological risks in cloud deployments, ensuring the implementation of secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
Promote AWS best practices and standards in architecture, security, and deployment, ensuring robust, AI-enhanced, and scalable cloud solutions for clients.
Stay ahead of industry trends in AWS portfolio, complementary ISVs and cloud computing, driving innovation by sharing knowledge with clients and internal teams through thought leadership and active contribution to organizational growth.
Be a visible thought leader by authoring blogs, presenting at industry conferences, and leading internal and external knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Document architectures, assessments, and recommendations in detailed, actionable reports that provide clear, business-aligned strategies for cloud adoption and AI integration.
Collaborate across teams to enhance and expand the organization’s cloud architecture capabilities, mentoring junior engineers, fostering continuous learning, and strengthening consulting and cloud engineering practices.
Competencies We Are Looking For:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, or a related field preferred.
10+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture with a focus on AWS and cloud-native technologies.
Proven expertise in AWS services and partner programs.
AWS certifications required: Architect (or Devops) Pro (or Associate) required. Experience with AWS data pipeline/ETL tools and integration with Snowflake preferred.
Experience in AI-driven cloud solutions and applying AI/ML technologies to enhance cloud architectures.
Proven consulting experience with the ability to translate technical solutions into business value for diverse stakeholders.
Proven experience succeeding in an environment with a high degree of context switching.
5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS architecture design, migrations, modernizations, cloud security, performance optimization, and cost management.
Strong leadership skills with a history of mentoring teams, leading solution design, and delivering complex cloud projects.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex cloud and AI solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to travel occasionally for client meetings or industry events.
What we offer:
Great salary and benefits - Health (HDHP & PPO Plans), dental, and vision insurance, HSA, EAP, as well as a 401k with company match.
Work/life balance - Ippon offers generous PTO, parental leave and medical leaves, and flexible schedules.
A fun, creative, and healthy work environment, focused on teamwork, knowledge-sharing, and exceptional delivery.
Opportunities to expand your portfolio and work with different companies and industries.
Career growth, up-skilling, cross training and leadership opportunities.
We value the diversity and different perspectives each of our employees bring to Ippon Technologies.
Ippon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
Visit us on LinkedIn or at
https://us.ippon.tech/
to learn more.
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Location: Atlanta, GA Metro, Washington DC Metro, NYC, or Richmond, VA and surrounding areas
Location Type: Hybrid - Home Office/Local Ippon office
About Ippon:
The Ippon story started in 2002 in Paris, France. Our founder and CEO Stéphane Nomis used his unique experience as an international Judo champion to create a culture based on the sports values of ambition and excellence. Our USA Headquarters office is located in Richmond, VA, with additional offices in New York, NY, Washington DC, and Atlanta, GA. We are a technology consulting firm that specializes in helping accelerate our client’s digital roadmap in the areas of Product Management, Cloud, Data, and Software Engineering. We have been an AWS Advanced Partner since 2016 with clear goals to become a Premier Partner in 2025.
About the Position:
We are seeking a Principal AWS Solution Architecture Consultant who will be instrumental in guiding clients through their cloud migration, modernization and transformation journey, leveraging the power of AWS, complementary ISVs like Snowflake, and AI. This key role requires a balance of deep technical expertise, strategic business insight, and consulting prowess to help clients innovate, optimize, and transform their business operations through modern cloud technologies and AI-driven solutions.
Roles and Responsibilities
Support clients in developing cloud architecture strategies centered on AWS, aligning these solutions with clients' business objectives to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency.
Support clients in developing migration and modernization journeys, leveraging AWS programs like the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), Well-Architected Framework, or Immersion Days.
Architect and design cloud-native solutions that optimize performance, cost, and security while ensuring alignment with clients' strategic goals and product roadmaps.
Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand their business challenges and objectives, ensuring that solutions are tailored to address real business needs while leveraging cutting-edge AWS services.
Evaluate and recommend the most effective AWS cloud solutions and AI technologies for each project, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Identify and mitigate potential architectural and technological risks in cloud deployments, ensuring the implementation of secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
Promote AWS best practices and standards in architecture, security, and deployment, ensuring robust, AI-enhanced, and scalable cloud solutions for clients.
Stay ahead of industry trends in AWS portfolio, complementary ISVs and cloud computing, driving innovation by sharing knowledge with clients and internal teams through thought leadership and active contribution to organizational growth.
Be a visible thought leader by authoring blogs, presenting at industry conferences, and leading internal and external knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Document architectures, assessments, and recommendations in detailed, actionable reports that provide clear, business-aligned strategies for cloud adoption and AI integration.
Collaborate across teams to enhance and expand the organization’s cloud architecture capabilities, mentoring junior engineers, fostering continuous learning, and strengthening consulting and cloud engineering practices.
Competencies We Are Looking For:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, or a related field preferred.
10+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture with a focus on AWS and cloud-native technologies.
Proven expertise in AWS services and partner programs.
AWS certifications required: Architect (or Devops) Pro (or Associate) required. Experience with AWS data pipeline/ETL tools and integration with Snowflake preferred.
Experience in AI-driven cloud solutions and applying AI/ML technologies to enhance cloud architectures.
Proven consulting experience with the ability to translate technical solutions into business value for diverse stakeholders.
Proven experience succeeding in an environment with a high degree of context switching.
5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS architecture design, migrations, modernizations, cloud security, performance optimization, and cost management.
Strong leadership skills with a history of mentoring teams, leading solution design, and delivering complex cloud projects.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex cloud and AI solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to travel occasionally for client meetings or industry events.
What we offer:
Great salary and benefits - Health (HDHP & PPO Plans), dental, and vision insurance, HSA, EAP, as well as a 401k with company match.
Work/life balance - Ippon offers generous PTO, parental leave and medical leaves, and flexible schedules.
A fun, creative, and healthy work environment, focused on teamwork, knowledge-sharing, and exceptional delivery.
Opportunities to expand your portfolio and work with different companies and industries.
Career growth, up-skilling, cross training and leadership opportunities.
We value the diversity and different perspectives each of our employees bring to Ippon Technologies.
Ippon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
Visit us on LinkedIn or at
https://us.ippon.tech/
to learn more.
So, do YOU speak Ippon?
#J-18808-Ljbffr