Joshua Anwar
Minneapolis,MN
Summary
Experienced AWS Solutions Architect with over a decade in designing, delivering, and scaling enterprise cloud platforms for Fortune-scale clients. Proven leader in greenfield implementations, large-scale modernization, and DevSecOps, skilled in developing reusable solution patterns that drive efficiency and innovation. Recognized as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, delivery teams, and sales organizations, consistently supporting RFPs, shaping solution strategies, and achieving multi-million-dollar outcomes. Strong mentoring abilities enhance the skills of architects and engineering leaders while fostering alignment between business objectives and technological advancements.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director – AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
Minnesota
06.2025 - Current
- Lead AWS delivery across multiple enterprise teams supporting ~$8M in annual revenue.
- Drive architectural strategy, technical direction, and governance for complex modernization programs.
- Champion adoption of AI-assisted development and agent-based solutions to accelerate SDLC and improve delivery efficiency.
- Serve as trusted people and technical leader, mentoring architects and engineering managers across the practice.
- Valued partner with Accenture and client account leadership to align technical cloud strategy with long-term client roadmaps.
Senior Manager – AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
Minnesota
12.2021 - Current
- Acted as senior AWS Advisor for large-scale, multi-year mainframe modernization program.
- Led global delivery teams of up to 50 resources across parallel workstreams and products.
- Played a critical role in stabilizing and rescuing a high-risk modernization program, helping preserve over $100M in future pipeline.
- Influenced and supported multiple RFPs and sole-source bids, contributing to more than $100M in awarded work.
- Designed and implemented DR/BC architectures meeting stringent RTO/RPO objectives for mission-critical platforms.
Manager - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
Minnesota
04.2020 - 12.2021
- Served as a Senior Solutions Architect for AWS Data and Analytics practice within the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG)
- Led architecture and delivery for cloud-native analytics platforms and modernization initiatives.
- Selected as AWS Midwest Well-Architected Champion to evangelize best practices across clients.
- Supported $200M+ in sales pipeline by contributing to solution design, estimations, and RFP responses.
- Built reusable demos and accelerators showcased to enterprise clients and executive leadership.
- Drove delivery excellence for time-sensitive engagements resulting in contract extensions and expanded scope.
Associate Manager - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
Minnesota
07.2017 - 04.2020
- Spearheaded AWS architecture for cloud native development on several full-stack projects using Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and an Agile delivery methodology.
- Influenced $4M of project related plan, build, and run operations.
- Developed and owned proprietary AWS cloud pricing tool used for estimating client footprints in the cloud.
- Established a re-usable and extensible business cartridge for creating secure, reusable and templatized Data Lakes in AWS cloud.
- Served in a technical lead capacity for team of 15 global resources on multiple cloud native applications hosted on AWS.
- Estimated and delivered cloud solution that included first Production Go-Live of AWS services that had recently become Generally Available. Productionalized AWS Glue and Athena at the client shortly after the services launched.
- Conducted several AWS learning workshops tailored to middle and senior management on a variety of topics including AWS 101 and Cloud Native Best Practices.
- Enforced enhanced security protocols in AWS using network security groups, resource access control policies to protect client’s PII data.
- Extensive development using both microservice and big data processing services in AWS. Established extensible capabilities for a proprietary PaaS solution offering data ingestion, validation and transformational capabilities.
- Implemented a REST protocol for daily instantiations of ETL processing in a third-party tool running in AWS Lambda and Data Pipeline.
- Architected and implemented numerous cloud native applications containing configuration engines and artifact repositories using DynamoDB, RDS and S3.
- Proposed operational cloud governance best practices to optimize spend and improve infrastructure related hygiene.
- Drove conversations with US and France based business stakeholders to modernize legacy application for commercial vendor and invoice management on AWS.
- Architected solution for commercial medical insights NLP and visualization. Estimated and provided technical expertise for won follow-up workstream.
Consultant - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
Minnesota
08.2016 - 07.2017
- Conducted RI purchase strategy for AWS infrastructure in excess of $20M annual expenditures. Final proposal produced $1M in annual savings.
- Proposed, reviewed and implemented compute and storage right-sizing strategy for cost optimization purposes with potential annual savings in excess of $1M.
- Developed cloud reference architectures, governance policies, security models, and best practices.
- Provided architectural feedback for HA/DR in client’s current environment.
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science with Software / Data Systems Emphasis, Minor in Business Management
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MNSkills
- Key AWS Services
- Lambda, Athena, Glue, Step Functions, ECS, ECR, Batch, Lake Formation, API Gateway, SageMaker, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Cognito, VPC, Data Pipeline, EMR, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, RDS, IAM, ELB, EBS
- CI/CD Services
- CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit, Jenkins, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform
- Generative AI & AI Platforms
- Microsoft Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock
- Programming Languages
- Python, SCALA, TypeScript, JSON, Java, C, C, JavaScript, HTML, Angular, Nodejs
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Associate Director – AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
06.2025 - Current
Senior Manager – AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
12.2021 - Current
Manager - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
04.2020 - 12.2021
Associate Manager - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
07.2017 - 04.2020
Consultant - AWS Technical Architecture Delivery
Accenture
08.2016 - 07.2017
B.Sc. - Computer Science with Software / Data Systems Emphasis, Minor in Business Management
University of Minnesota