Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist SA to lead complex cloud modernization and migration initiatives for enterprise customers.

You will manage technical relationships, design scalable AWS target architectures, and guide large-scale transformation programs across business and technical stakeholders. You will share best practices, develop reference architectures, and educate customers through workshops, public speaking, and published content.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using Linux/Unix and Windows with server, load balancing, HA/DR, and storage architectures.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience across core infrastructure domains: virtualization (VMware), containers, storage, databases, and application modernization.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive technical expertise in infrastructure migration and application modernization strategies, including VMware-to-AWS, mainframe exit, database migration, and containerization pathways
• Assess customer on-premises environments and design scalable, cost-optimized target architectures on AWS that align with business objectives and transformation timelines
• Define end-to-end migration strategies - from workload discovery and dependency mapping through wave planning, cutover execution, and post-migration optimization
• Represent the voice of the customer and collaborate with field and central teams to bring migration/modernization feedback to product and service teams
• Act as a thought leader in Migration & Modernization by sharing best practices through AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and public speaking engagements such as AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent
• Guide and support an internal AWS community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your customers, including the creation of field enablement materials for the broader Solutions Architect population on migration pathways and modernization patterns

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist SA to lead complex cloud modernization and migration initiatives for enterprise customers.

You will manage technical relationships, design scalable AWS target architectures, and guide large-scale transformation programs across business and technical stakeholders. You will share best practices, develop reference architectures, and educate customers through workshops, public speaking, and published content.