Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Infrastructure Migration and Modernization.

You will partner with customers to design migration strategies that transform how they build, deploy, and operate on AWS, balancing technical excellence with business outcomes. You will translate complex portfolios into hybrid and cloud-native architectures, guide migrations end-to-end, and create guidance and reference architectures for broader AWS

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end migration and modernization solutions by analyzing customer application portfolios, identifying dependencies, assessing migration feasibility, and architecting reliable, cost-optimized paths to AWS.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders from developers and system administrators to directors and C-level executives, defining cloud strategies and ensuring solutions align with their business objectives.
• Lead technical solution discussions by diving deeply into design choices, best practices, and use cases, while proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex options and engaging the right specialist resources when needed.
• Author and deliver thought leadership content such as whitepapers, reference architectures, and presentations that educate customers on migration best practices and AWS platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with internal teams including sales, business development, professional services, and engineering to progress customer engagements through their lifecycle and accelerate solution adoption.

Skills

Migration design

Executive engagement

Cloud architecture

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Infrastructure Migration and Modernization.

You will partner with customers to design migration strategies that transform how they build, deploy, and operate on AWS, balancing technical excellence with business outcomes. You will translate complex portfolios into hybrid and cloud-native architectures, guide migrations end-to-end, and create guidance and reference architectures for broader AWS