Solution Architect - AI-Led Enterprise VMware Exit to AWS Cloud

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Health

Family Support: Parental Leaves

Insurance Options: Auto & Home

Commuter Benefits & Training Reimburse

Vacation & Holidays

401K Plan & Bonus

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 a/yr

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) seeks a senior enterprise architect to lead end-to-end VMware/VMC exit to AWS. You will drive discovery, target-state architectures, and migration wave design across global teams, ensuring security, compliance, and resilience while enabling cost-effective cloud adoption.

The role requires deep AWS and VMware expertise, strong IaC skills, and experience with AI-assisted migration planning. On-site in Charlotte, NC with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years in technology architecture/engineering with 5+ years in AWS cloud migration or data center exit.
• Experience leading VMware/VMC exit programs end-to-end (discovery to decommissioning).
• Strong hands-on architecture across VMware, AWS, networking, identity, security, compute, storage, observability, and DR.
• Experience defining workload disposition and migration patterns (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, repurchase).
• Experience applying AI/automation/analytics to accelerate discovery, planning, testing, and migration execution.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end target solution architecture for enterprise VMware/VMC exit to AWS, aligned to security and compliance.
• Lead current-state discovery and architecture assessment across applications, infra, and networks.
• Develop migration-wave architecture packages covering source/target designs and data movement.
• Provide technical leadership and design assurance to cross-functional teams across global delivery locations.

Skills

AWS migration arch

VMware exit programs

Multi-account AWS

IaC: Terraform/CF

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.


• 12+ years of technology architecture and engineering experience, including 5+ years designing enterprise AWS cloud migration, modernization, or data center exit solutions.


• Proven experience architecting large VMware or VMC exit programs covering discovery, assessment, target-state architecture, AWS foundations, migration waves, testing, cutover, stabilization, and decommissioning.


• Strong hands‑on architecture experience across VMware estates, AWS landing zones, multi-account strategy, networking, identity, security, compute, storage, databases, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and cloud operations.


• Experience defining workload disposition and migration patterns including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and repurchase.


• Experience applying AI, automation, analytics, and agentic capabilities to accelerate infrastructure and application discovery, dependency analysis, wave planning, code and configuration assessment, testing, migration execution, and evidence generation.


• Experience designing secure, resilient, compliant, and auditable solutions for regulated enterprises; insurance or financial services experience preferred.


• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Migration, VMware, networking, security, or equivalent certifications preferred.


• Deep knowledge of AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, container services, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, Backup, and disaster recovery patterns.


• Strong understanding of VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, storage, backup, monitoring, licensing, and dependency considerations relevant to exit planning.


• Expertise in migration assessment, application dependency mapping, target platform selection, workload disposition, migration wave design, cutover architecture, rollback, resilience, and decommissioning controls.


• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, scripting, APIs, CI/CD, configuration management, and policy-as-code.


• Working knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLM-based analysis, model governance, Human-in-the-Loop validation, prompt and output controls, and auditability of AI-assisted decisions.


• Strong application, infrastructure, network, data, identity, security, privacy, compliance, observability, FinOps, and operational architecture skills.


• Ability to lead architecture workshops, document decisions and trade-offs, resolve cross-domain dependencies, and communicate effectively with executives, business owners, engineers, security teams, and vendors.


• Define the end-to-end target solution architecture for an enterprise VMware/VMC exit to AWS Cloud, aligned to business outcomes, security, compliance, resilience, scalability, operability, cost, and migration timelines.


• Lead current-state discovery and architecture assessment across applications, infrastructure, VMware platforms, networks, data, integrations, security controls, operational tooling, and business dependencies.


• Establish workload disposition criteria and target hosting patterns for rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and repurchase decisions, with documented rationale, risk s, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.


• Design the AWS landing zone and foundational architecture, including account structure, identity and access, network connectivity, segmentation, DNS, security services, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets, backup, disaster recovery, and operational controls.


• Create reusable reference architectures and migration patterns for common application, database, middleware, file, batch, integration, and infrastructure scenarios.


• Define an AI-led architecture approach for discovery, dependency analysis, migration recommendations, code and configuration assessment, wave planning, test generation, evidence creation, and operational insights.


• Ensure AI-generated findings and recommendations are traceable, explainable, security- reviewed, and validated through accountable Human-in-the-Loop architecture and SME approvals before execution.


• Partner with application, infrastructure, network, security, data, automation/IaC, testing, release, compliance, FinOps, and operations teams to resolve cross-domain design decisions and dependencies.


• Develop migration-wave architecture packages covering source and target designs, connectivity, data movement, security controls, non‑functional requirements, testing, cutover, rollback, hypercare, and decommissioning prerequisites.


• Review low-level designs, infrastructure-as-code, automation, build outputs, security configurations, migration runbooks, test evidence, and operational documentation for adherence to approved architecture.


• Define non‑functional requirements and architecture quality gates for availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, privacy, compliance, observability, maintainability, scalability, and cost efficiency.


• Lead architecture governance forums, maintain decision and exception records, manage technical risks and debt, and elevate design constraints that affect migration scope, sequence, schedule, or operational readiness.


• Support proof‑of‑concept, pilot, and early migration waves, capture lessons learned, and industrialize successful patterns for the migration factory.


• Define coexistence and transition‑state architecture while workloads operate across VMware and AWS, including connectivity, identity, monitoring, support, data synchronization, and failure management.


• Ensure decommissioning architecture addresses dependency closure, data retention, backup and recovery obligations, asset and license updates, security evidence, and removal of obsolete VMware infrastructure.


• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design assurance to architects and engineering teams across global, regional, onsite, and offshore delivery locations.

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.


• 12+ years of technology architecture and engineering experience, including 5+ years designing enterprise AWS cloud migration, modernization, or data center exit solutions.


• Proven experience architecting large VMware or VMC exit programs covering discovery, assessment, target-state architecture, AWS foundations, migration waves, testing, cutover, stabilization, and decommissioning.


• Strong hands‑on architecture experience across VMware estates, AWS landing zones, multi‑account strategy, networking, identity, security, compute, storage, databases, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and cloud operations.


• Experience defining workload disposition and migration patterns including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and repurchase.


• Experience applying AI, automation, analytics, and agentic capabilities to accelerate infrastructure and application discovery, dependency analysis, wave planning, code and configuration assessment, testing, migration execution, and evidence generation.


• Experience designing secure, resilient, compliant, and auditable solutions for regulated enterprises; insurance or financial services experience preferred.


• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Migration, VMware, networking, security, or equivalent certifications preferred.


• Deep knowledge of AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, container services, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, Backup, and disaster recovery patterns.


• Strong understanding of VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, storage, backup, monitoring, licensing, and dependency considerations relevant to exit planning.


• Expertise in migration assessment, application dependency mapping, target platform selection, workload disposition, migration wave design, cutover architecture, rollback, resilience, and decommissioning controls.


• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, scripting, APIs, CI/CD, configuration management, and policy-as-code.


• Working knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLM-based analysis, model governance, Human-in-the-Loop validation, prompt and output controls, and auditability of AI-assisted decisions.


• Strong application, infrastructure, network, data, identity, security, privacy, compliance, observability, FinOps, and operational architecture skills.


• Ability to lead architecture workshops, document decisions and trade‑offs, resolve cross‑domain dependencies, and communicate effectively with executives, business owners, engineers, security teams, and vendors.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end target solution architecture for an enterprise VMware/VMC exit to AWS Cloud, aligned to business outcomes, security, compliance, resilience, scalability, operability, cost, and migration timelines.


• Lead current-state discovery and architecture assessment across applications, infrastructure, VMware platforms, networks, data, integrations, security controls, operational tooling, and business dependencies.


• Establish workload disposition criteria and target hosting patterns for rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and repurchase decisions, with documented rationale, risk s, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.


• Design the AWS landing zone and foundational architecture, including account structure, identity and access, network connectivity, segmentation, DNS, security services, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets, backup, disaster recovery, and operational controls.


• Create reusable reference architectures and migration patterns for common application, database, middleware, file, batch, integration, and infrastructure scenarios.


• Define an AI-led architecture approach for discovery, dependency analysis, migration recommendations, code and configuration assessment, wave planning, test generation, evidence creation, and operational insights.


• Ensure AI-generated findings and recommendations are traceable, explainable, security- reviewed, and validated through accountable Human-in-the-Loop architecture and SME approvals before execution.


• Partner with application, infrastructure, network, security, data, automation/IaC, testing, release, compliance, FinOps, and operations teams to resolve cross‑domain design decisions and dependencies.


• Develop migration-wave architecture packages covering source and target designs, connectivity, data movement, security controls, non‑functional requirements, testing, cutover, rollback, hypercare, and decommissioning prerequisites.


• Review low-level designs, infrastructure-as-code, automation, build outputs, security configurations, migration runbooks, test evidence, and operational documentation for adherence to approved architecture.


• Define non‑functional requirements and architecture quality gates for availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, privacy, compliance, observability, maintainability, scalability, and cost efficiency.


• Lead architecture governance forums, maintain decision and exception records, manage technical risks and debt, and elevate design constraints that affect migration scope, sequence, schedule, or operational readiness.


• Support proof‑of‑concept, pilot, and early migration waves, capture lessons learned, and industrialize successful patterns for the migration factory.


• Define coexistence and transition‑state architecture while workloads operate across VMware and AWS, including connectivity, identity, monitoring, support, data synchronization, and failure management.


• Ensure decommissioning architecture addresses dependency closure, data retention, backup and recovery obligations, asset and license updates, security evidence, and removal of obsolete VMware infrastructure.


• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design assurance to architects and engineering teams across global, regional, onsite, and offshore delivery locations.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.


• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.


• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.


• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.


• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.


• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.


• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.


• Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 a year

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE