Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Mainframe Application modernization background, and technical skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses?

Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Mainframe Modernization team as a Specialist Solution Architect!

The ideal candidate will possess a business background that enables them engage at the CXO level, deep experience with Mainframes, knowledge of Mainframe specifics infrastructure solutions, and using GenAI technologies that will help drive the Mainframe Application Modernization ecosystem, as well as a sales background that enables them to easily interact with enterprise customers, partners, and the AWS field teams.

The candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, and the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.

The WWSO (Worldwide Specialist Organization) Mainframe Modernization team positions AWS as the best place to run Mainframe Applications. Our team helps customers migrate Mainframe applications and data to the AWS cloud while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential.

Key job responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge with Mainframe application modernization aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
- Develop innovative solutions for Mainframe modernization with GenAI technologies.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

A day in the life
As a Mainframe Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and develop solutions to accelerate their cloud migration journey. You will operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey. You will engage with senior customer leaders and technical stakeholders to help them achieve increased agility and significant business value by advising and defining their migration approach to the cloud.

You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, optimization, and operational efficiency to accelerate their large scale Migration projects.

Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. Externally, the Mainframe Migration Specialist Solutions Architect works with large enterprises, helping them effectively lead their migration readiness assessment and migration and modernization strategy.



About the team
Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

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Work/Life Balance

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship and Career Growth

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- 7+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- 5+ years management of technical, customer facing resources
- 5+ years of Mainframe application modernization experience and understand and implement GenAI solutions

- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.