Lead Solutions Architect

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays 26 days

Pension

Employee share plan

Commuting allowance

Bike lease

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Hands-Off AWS Solutions Architect in Amsterdam who has led multiple on-premises to AWS migrations. You will drive discovery workshops, design wave plans, and guide both client and internal teams through cutover for projects lasting at least twelve months with major international brands.

The role is hybrid, based in Amsterdam, with 1–2 office days per week. Strong leadership and consultancy skills are essential, along with a solid Terraform/CloudFormation and

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience leading several cloud migrations (discovery, wave planning, cutover).
• Solid understanding of landing zones, platform engineering and hybrid connectivity between on-premises and cloud.
• Strong foundation in Terraform or CloudFormation and Python; knowledge of storage, rightsizing and observability.
• You’re a true consultant: you build trust with clients and lead a team.
• Strong command of Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and migration workshops with clients.
• Build the wave plan from high level to low level and guide the team to the cutover.
• Lead client and team, with ~80% time on leadership/advising and ~20% hands-on.
• Collaborate with platform, database and security architects on long-term projects with major brands.

Skills

Cloud migrations leadership

Landing zones & hybrid connectivity

Python

Dutch language

English language

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Vacancy: Hands-Off AWS Solutions Architect | Amsterdam | Dutch Speaking

For an international engineering and IT consultancy we are looking for a Migration Architect who doesn’t just understand AWS migrations, but has led several of them. The company was founded by engineers, employs tens of thousands of people worldwide and is building a specialised AWS business group in Amsterdam. No secondment: you work outcome-based on projects where the company owns the result.

You’ll join an AWS team of 30+ technically outstanding engineers in the Netherlands. You are the bridge to the client: you lead discovery and migration workshops, build the wave plan from high level to low level, and take both client and team along to the final cutover. Roughly 80% of your time goes to leading, planning and advising; about 20% you get hands‑on. You work alongside platform, database and security architects on projects of at least twelve months for major international brands in retail, consumer goods and financial services.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience leading several cloud migrations, preferably from on-premises to AWS (discovery, wave planning, cutover);
• Solid understanding of landing zones, platform engineering and hybrid connectivity between on‑premises and cloud;
• A strong technical foundation in Terraform or CloudFormation and Python, plus knowledge of storage, rightsizing and observability;
• You’re a true consultant: you build trust with clients and lead a team;
• Strong command of Dutch and English.

Why apply?

• A key role in an AWS team that is deliberately investing in client focus: you help shape that culture;
• Consultancy ≠ secondment: outcome‑based projects, and you stay part of your own team;
• Projects of at least twelve months with major international brands, then on to the next client;
• Lead rather than only build: roughly 80% leading and advising, 20% hands‑on;
• Permanent contract with 26 holiday days, pension, employee share purchase plan, commuting allowance and bike lease.

Location: Amsterdam (hybrid, 1 or 2 days working in the office a week)