Enterprise Solutions Architect (AWS)

$134,400 - $235,200/Yr

CGI - Sacramento, CA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Sacramento, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Enterprise Solutions Architect (AWS) role at CGI involves leading the design and implementation of enhancements for a Social Services program serving a California client in the public sector. This senior leadership position requires a blend of technical expertise and client-facing skills to ensure high-quality delivery of solutions while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within the team. The role is hybrid, requiring presence at the client site three days a week, and emphasizes continuous optimization of operations and problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client to scope modifications and enhancements based on business and technical requirements
• Designing solutions with the team in support of the requirements
• Proposing software and configurations, presented considerations to inform client decisions
• Leading the technical workstreams to produce on time, on budget, high quality results
• Identifying automation opportunities to streamline deployments and maintenance
• Integrating and ensuring high quality deliver of both waterfall and Agile development methodologies to deliver changes and new solutions
• Identifying innovations to support business needs and selling the new solutions to the client
• Leading development and pitch of change requests to the client, including collaborating with third-party vendors and CGI on pricing
• Educating and mentoring team members
• Managing staff
• Contributing to new business development, including proposal writing and sales demos

Requirements

• 8+ years of Enterprise Solutions Architect experience
• Leadership experience with a large (50+ members) and diverse team
• Excellent interpersonal skills for collaborating with and coaching staff
• Excellent presentation skills
• Technical expertise and experience being part of the team architecting large scale enterprise solutions with 4+ COTS products, 25+ interfaces, a mobile app, 1,000+ users with disaster recovery and high availability
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in application integration within an AWS cloud hosted application
• An AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification (strongly preferred)
• Experience architecting solutions that meet performance and other technical SLAs
• Working technical knowledge across a breadth of disciplines to be able to ask challenging and probing questions to lead the joint team to the best possible solution and approach given factors of requirements, business milestones, budget, etc.
• Experience being part of a business development team pursuing enterprise opportunities
• Experience conducting estimations for and architecting on-premise and cloud solutions
• Overseeing the implementation of solutions within a reasonable timeframe and budget based on the original estimation.

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) with company matching
• 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible members
• Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans
• Comprehensive insurance plans including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
• Back-up child care
• Pet insurance
• Member Assistance Program
• 529 college savings program
• Personal financial management tool
• Lifestyle management programs