Senior Migration & Modernization Solutions Architect

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Detroit is seeking a Senior Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to help customers migrate critical workloads to AWS with storage, modernization, and data center exit expertise.

You will collaborate with enterprise customers and AWS teams to design large-scale migration architectures, guide migrations, and share best practices through blogs, whitepapers, and public speaking engagements.

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 migration strategies leveraging AWS.
• Define, design, and execute large-scale migration architectures across storage, applications, and infrastructure domains.
• Engage with senior engineers, architects, and executives to influence migration decisions and provide feedback to product teams.
• Lead complex data center exit programs for large enterprises with deep technical expertise in migrations.
• Hands-on experience with storage migration strategies, application modernization patterns, VMware migrations, database migrations, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Advise senior stakeholders on migration trade-offs, risks, and long-term optimization strategies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise migrations

VMware migrations

Infrastructure migration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Detroit is seeking a Senior Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect to help customers migrate critical workloads to AWS with storage, modernization, and data center exit expertise.

You will collaborate with enterprise customers and AWS teams to design large-scale migration architectures, guide migrations, and share best practices through blogs, whitepapers, and public speaking engagements.