Empyrean Benefit Solutions

Own and architect scalable AWS demo environments supporting sales and product demos. | Design, provision, and maintain AWS-based demo environments with automation, security, and collaboration with sales and engineering teams. | The Sr Pre-Sales Cloud Architect will own the architecture, design, and evolution of demo environments, ensuring they accurately reflect production architecture and support high-impact sales demonstrations and proof-of-concept efforts. Requirements • Own the technical architecture and roadmap for demo environments • Design scalable, secure AWS-based demo architectures aligned with production design principles • Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot issues in demo environments • Configure and refresh environments to support product demos, proofs of concept, and client engagements • Manage environment data sets, ensuring they are realistic, compliant, and aligned with demo scenarios • Establish and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code templates to enable rapid, repeatable provisioning • Ensure all product functionality is fully demo-capable • Identify architectural gaps and drive continuous improvement in demo scalability, automation, and reliability • Coordinate environment version control and release readiness in alignment with Engineering, Product, and Sales roadmaps • Architect, configure, test and maintain complex Benefits Administration modules and workflows within demo environments • Collaborate with Product and Sales teams to design realistic plan structures, eligibility rules, enrollment flows, life event scenarios, calculations, and integrations to reflect real-world use cases • Serve as the internal subject matter expert on Benefits Administration functionality and demo best practices • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to benefits configuration, plan setup, calculations, and integrations • Validate readiness by ensuring new product capabilities are architecturally supported within demo environments • Support advanced/unique demo customizations required for strategic sales opportunities • Architect, provision, and optimize AWS services supporting demo environments • Implement automation to reduce manual setup time, improve repeatability, and increase reliability • Establish repeatable environment provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning • Monitor system health, security posture, and resource utilization within AWS • Partner with Sales Engineering to design and support tailored demo configurations for complex or high-visibility opportunities • Provide training and documentation to internal teams on environment usage and best practices • Collaborate with Development to ensure demo environments align with CI/CD pipelines and production infrastructure patterns Benefits • Medical • Dental • Vision • Retirement Plan • 401k Matching • Paid Time Off • Relocation Assistance