Senior Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud migrations and modernization initiatives in NY. You’ll partner with senior leaders to design scalable, cost-optimized architectures and guide migrations end-to-end.

You’ll evangelize AWS best practices, create reference architectures, and mentor a field team while balancing executive communication with deep technical work to drive measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & 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 their 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

Skills

Cloud migration

Enterprise arch

Stakeholder mgmt

VMware to AWS

Windows/Linux

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud migrations and modernization initiatives in NY. You’ll partner with senior leaders to design scalable, cost-optimized architectures and guide migrations end-to-end.

You’ll evangelize AWS best practices, create reference architectures, and mentor a field team while balancing executive communication with deep technical work to drive measurable business outcomes.