As a Migration & Modernization Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, you will help shape and deliver a strategy to accelerate customer migrations and modernizations to AWS through our partner ecosystem. Emphasis is on working directly with ISV and SI partners to build AI-powered migration and modernization strategies that help customers move and modernize business-critical workloads — including Windows/.NET, SQL Server, and virtualized/VMware environments — on AWS.
This is a hands-on, partner-facing role with a forward-deployed engineering mindset. You will embed directly with partners and their customer engagements — writing code, building integrations, and troubleshooting alongside partner teams — while integrating AWS Transform capabilities and Generative AI to accelerate the migration lifecycle. As the right candidate, you possess in-depth technical skills across cloud migration, modernization, and AI/ML, plus the partner development and customer-facing skills to represent AWS to customers, partners, developers, and architects. You think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
Key job responsibilities
Architect, build, and validate AI-powered migration and modernization solutions across .NET, SQL Server, and virtualized/VMware workloads using AWS Transform and AWS services (Data & Analytics, GenAI, Observability, Security)
Embed hands-on with ISV and SI partners (forward-deployed engineering) — writing code, building integrations, and unblocking live migrations, then turning field learnings into repeatable, reusable patterns
Design GenAI and agentic AI architectures — RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, automated code analysis and refactoring, and dependency mapping — that reduce migration timelines and manual effort
Enable partners to integrate AWS Transform APIs into their platforms and layer GenAI on top; guide foundation model selection, prompt engineering, and GenAIOps (guardrails, evaluation, responsible AI)
Collaborate with the AWS Transform service team and cross-functional AWS teams (Partner Core, WWSO GTM, field) to scale partner-led programs and inform the product roadmap
Publish reference architectures, technical content, and thought leadership; enable the broader SA and partner community
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Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
- Experience in SQL Server/MySQL, or experience in any Bigdata architecture and experience in technical support
- Experience with virtualization (Hypervisors, VMware, Xen), or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience in managing and troublshooting network
- AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or Cloud Technology Certification
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USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually