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 demonstrating thought-leadership and a 'can do' approach to enterprise migrations, working backwards from customer needs.

This is a senior role in the Solutions Architecture organization at AWS. This role provides a unique opportunity to lead transformational change in large enterprise customers in their journey to the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing

- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent

- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent

- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers

- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

- Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement

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, GA, Atlanta - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, MA, Boston - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually