Senior Solutions Architect: IBM i Modernization & AI

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for Agentic AI and IBM i (AS/400) Modernization. You will lead modernization strategies, assess readiness, and design secure cloud-native architectures that integrate agentic AI and governed services.

You will build trusted relationships with senior executives, guide migrations, and create reference architectures, technical guidance, and workshops to accelerate production readiness across customer environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience.
• 5+ years of modernization and migration technologies, including Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations.
• Experience or certifications in API design, cloud architecture/deployment, SOA, mobile development, performance optimization, databases design and related fields
• Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical authority for IBM i modernization and build trusted relationships with customer executives, architects, and engineering teams.
• Lead discovery and architecture workshops to assess IBM i applications, dependencies, data, business rules, and operational requirements.
• Design secure cloud-native and agentic AI target architectures that separate deterministic business logic, composable services, and reasoning-based workflows.
• Use AI-assisted modernization tools to extract requirements and business logic, generate or refactor code, automate testing, and validate functional equivalence with human oversight.
• Advise customers on migration and modernization options, including phased coexistence, data integration, security, resilience, performance, cost, and operational readiness.
• Work with AWS product and engineering organizations to translate customer requirements into actionable feedback and validate new capabilities.
• Collaborate with Business Development, AWS Professional Services, account teams, and partners to guide customers from assessment through validated proof points and production readiness.
• Create and share reference architectures, technical guidance, code samples, white papers, blog posts, workshops, and other reusable field content.
• Educate customers, partners, and technical communities through workshops, user groups, conferences, online content, and public speaking.

Skills

IT development

AI in security

IBM i modernization on AWS

IBM i architecture knowledge

AI-assisted modernization tools

Reference architectures

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for Agentic AI and IBM i (AS/400) Modernization. You will lead modernization strategies, assess readiness, and design secure cloud-native architectures that integrate agentic AI and governed services.

You will build trusted relationships with senior executives, guide migrations, and create reference architectures, technical guidance, and workshops to accelerate production readiness across customer environments.