Principal Architect, AWS Application Modernization

Presidio, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of technology, where innovation meets collaboration. As a Principal Architect, you'll lead transformative cloud solutions, engaging directly with clients to drive their cloud adoption journey. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and a dynamic team, enabling organizations to modernize their applications and optimize their operations. If you're passionate about creating impactful cloud strategies and delivering value to customers, this is your chance to make a significant difference in the digital landscape.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Professional Development

Remote Work Options

Paid Time Off

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience with AWS solutions.
• 5+ years of presales experience in cloud technologies.
• Experience in designing and implementing cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead presales discovery and architecture design for cloud solutions.
• Drive customer engagement to maximize cloud benefits.
• Collaborate with teams to develop and close cloud migration deals.

Skills

AWS Solutions

Presales Experience

Cloud Migration

Application Modernization

Microservices Architecture

Technical Assessment

Customer Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS

Cloud Native Technologies

Job description

Description

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the FutureAtPresidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries throughcutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses-and their customers-to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role
A Presidio Principal Architect leads the presales discovery, analysis, architectures, designs, and proposals of relevant solutions that map to customer outcomes and requirements through direct client engagement. A Principal Architect effectively and efficiently leverages presales methodologies, technical acumen, key relationships (clients, internal Presidio stakeholders and vendor partners), and context analysis (Industry, Customer, Technical, Sales) to position and recommend solutions that that deliver long term value.

Travel Requirements: In this role you will be expected to travel up to 30%. It will be based in any location in the United States.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey


• Drive customer engagements to help customers maximize the benefits of the cloud through application modernization.


• Be effective at working with customer and partner leadership to qualify, develop, and close deals around migrating and modernizing applications, including large-scale data center migrations, SAP, Oracle, Mainframe, and custom application refactoring.


• Work alongside our enterprise account teams, solution architects to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey and modernize their business on AWS.


• Transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more.


• Focus on understanding our customer's key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical assessment to the customer, then use these inputs to design reliable and scalable cloud architectures, as well as help build the overall migration plan.


• Collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, and our Partner team to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the AWS Migration Acceleration Program.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

• Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS.


• Defining and executing technical migration strategies by working with highly technical teams within Presidio: Solutions Architects, Client Technical Directors, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners.


• Delivering modern architectures such as micro services and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities.


• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration.


• Driving the co-development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities with the Geo business lead.
  Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and the Migration Acceleration Program.


• Working as part of a cross functional team to identify, develop, and close deals.


• Engaging with C-level customer executives to inspire, define and execute on Enterprise cloud migration strategies demonstrating thought-leadership and a 'can do' approach to enterprise migrations, working backwards from customer needs.

Required Skills and Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience


• Overall 10 years of relevant experience


• 5+ years professional work experience with AWS solutions, 3+ years presales experience


• 2+ years of design, implementation & consulting in applications and infrastructures experience


• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience


• 7+ years of IT development or implementation consulting


• Experience working with AWS technologies from a DevOps perspective

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries


• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Your future at Presidio
JoiningPresidiomeans stepping into aculture of trailblazers-thinkers, builders, and collaborators-who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise inAI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here,your impact is real.Whether you're harnessing the power ofGenerative AI, architecting resilientdigital ecosystems, or drivingdata-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information, visit www.presidio.com.

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