Principal Solutions Architect, Modernization & Transformation, Migration & Modernization; AWS

Principal Solutions Architect, Modernization & Transformation, Migration & Modernization

Job :  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and comprehensive support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud.

Join us and help us grow.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring Application Modernization Solution Architects to work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey. Imagine being a part of a team where your ideas have the potential to change companies, reshape industries, and improve the lives of many. Picture working with cutting-edge technology, the most dynamic businesses, and a talented & inclusive team.

Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-10 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Web Services where you can have fun while making history.

As an Application Modernization Solution Architect, you will have an exciting opportunity to help customers maximize the benefits of the cloud through application modernization. You must be effective at working with customer and partner leadership to qualify, develop, and close deals around migrating and modernizing applications, including large-scale data center migrations, SAP, Oracle, VMware, and custom application refactoring.

As a trusted advisor, you will have the opportunity to work alongside our enterprise account teams and solution architects to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey, and modernize their business on AWS. Working with strategic customers, you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more. You will focus on understanding our customer's key business drivers as well as their existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical assessment to the customer, then use these inputs to design a reliable and scalable cloud architecture(s), as well as help build the overall migration and modernization plan.

You will also collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs), and our Partner team to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. You will gain hands‑on technical credibility with internal as well as customer technical leaders, and will mentor other AWS solution architects on migration best practices.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

• Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS
• Defining and executing technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams within AWS (Solutions Architects, CSMs, Technical Account Managers, Professional Services consultants and Managed service partners)
• Delivering modern architectures such as microservices and event‑driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities.
• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer to identify repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration
• Driving the co‑development of new go‑to‑market approaches and opportunities with the Geo business lead.
• Contributing to AWS internal and customer‑facing publications such as white papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge.
• Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and the Migration Acceleration Program.
• Working as part of a cross functional team to identify, develop, and close deals.
• Engaging with C‑level customer executives to inspire, define and execute on Enterprise cloud migration strategies…