VP, Solutions Architect - AWS
Robots and Pencils2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead generative and agentic AI architecture for strategic clients from discovery through production deployment.
- Design AWS-native RAG, Agentic RAG, and multi-agent systems using Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, serverless services, databases, and orchestration platforms.
- Produce reference architectures, architecture decision records, and implementation roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Validate architecture feasibility through hands-on Python prototyping with Bedrock SDKs, SageMaker, and serverless services.
- Own architectural integrity, security, governance, compliance, reliability, performance, sustainability, and cost optimization across AWS solutions.
- Create reusable AWS accelerators, infrastructure modules, and CI/CD automation using infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Provide architectural oversight to Forward Deployed Engineers and AWS delivery teams and mentor engineers on AWS AI integrations and distributed systems.
- Establish AWS MLOps, model lifecycle, monitoring, observability, responsible AI, and multi-account security practices.
- Advise clients and executives on model selection, latency, cost, governance, compliance, and AWS migration strategy.
- Support pre-sales workshops, solution scoping, and collaboration with product, engineering, research, customer success, and client stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or cloud architecture with deep AWS ownership.
- Deep expertise in Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AgentCore Gateway, and related AWS AI services.
- Strong familiarity with SageMaker training, deployment, pipelines, deep learning fundamentals, and model fine-tuning strategies.
- Experience architecting RAG, multi-agent, orchestration, distributed, event-driven, and serverless systems.
- Proficiency with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, and AWS SDKs.
- Experience implementing AWS observability and monitoring strategies and leading enterprise-scale AWS transformations.
- Strong knowledge of AWS security, multi-account strategies, governance, privacy, compliance, and cost optimization.
- Exceptional communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
- AWS Professional Certifications are highly preferred, including AWS Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Machine Learning – Specialty or Security – Specialty certifications, experience with ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thoughts patterns on Bedrock, AWS Control Tower, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, and consulting or professional services experience.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale generative and agentic AI platforms and influence the evolution of the company’s AWS AI practice.
- Work with distributed teams and client stakeholders across North America.
About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.