Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Amazon Jobs; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to drive enterprise migration initiatives. You will translate complex infrastructure challenges into migration strategies, designing architectures that move workloads to AWS and modernize environments across storage, applications, and compute.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers to influence product direction and share best practices through technical content, events, and engagement

Qualifications

• 6+ 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.
• 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Translate customer infrastructure challenges into comprehensive migration strategies leveraging AWS.
• Define, design, and execute large-scale migration architectures that accelerate adoption of AWS services across storage, applications, and infrastructure domains.
• Engage with senior engineers, architects, infrastructure leaders, and executives at strategic enterprise customers to influence migration decisions and provide structured feedback to AWS product teams.
• Collaborate with business development to input migration GTM strategy and support field marketing.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Migration & modernization

Executive engagement

Customer-facing leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

VMware

FSx

EFS

S3

Network security

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to drive enterprise migration initiatives. You will translate complex infrastructure challenges into migration strategies, designing architectures that move workloads to AWS and modernize environments across storage, applications, and compute.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers to influence product direction and share best practices through technical content, events, and engagement