Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Migration and Modernization, AWS Global Sales, US Infrastructure Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architecture

Are you passionate about helping customers reimagine their technology landscape and move confidently to the cloud? As a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Infrastructure Migration and Modernization at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will partner directly with customers to design and deliver migration strategies that transform how they build, deploy, and operate on AWS. You will combine deep technical expertise with business acumen to assess complex application portfolios, architect hybrid and cloud-native solutions, and guide customers through every phase of their migration journey. This role puts you at the intersection of strategy and execution, where your recommendations shape long-term technology direction and drive measurable business outcomes.

Key job responsibilities
- Design end-to-end migration and modernization solutions by analyzing customer application portfolios, identifying dependencies, assessing migration feasibility, and architecting reliable, cost-optimized paths to AWS.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders from developers and system administrators to directors and C-level executives, defining cloud strategies and ensuring solutions align with their business objectives.
- Lead technical solution discussions by diving deeply into design choices, best practices, and use cases, while proactively identifying high-risk or overly complex options and engaging the right specialist resources when needed.
- Author and deliver thought leadership content such as whitepapers, reference architectures, and presentations that educate customers on migration best practices and AWS platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with internal teams including sales, business development, professional services, and engineering to progress customer engagements through their lifecycle and accelerate solution adoption.

A day in the life
You start your morning reviewing a customer's application portfolio assessment, identifying which workloads are ready for migration and which need modernization. By mid-morning you are on a call with a customer's engineering leadership, walking through your proposed hybrid architecture and discussing trade-offs around scalability and cost. After lunch, you collaborate with an AWS service team to refine a reference design that other Solutions Architects can reuse. Later, you draft an AWS technical blog post capturing lessons learned from a recent large-scale migration, turning your hands-on experience into guidance the broader community can benefit from.

About the team
Our team at AWS helps customers navigate some of the most consequential technology decisions they face; moving and modernizing their infrastructure in the cloud. We work closely with customers across industries. We meet our customers where they are in their cloud journey and guide them toward architectures that are secure, resilient, and built for growth. We value collaboration, knowledge sharing, and a genuine commitment to customer outcomes, and we are always looking for thoughtful, curious builders who want to make a real impact. - 8+ 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
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience - 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Irvine - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Diego - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, GA, Alpharetta - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, NJ, Jersey City - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, AUSTIN - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually