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Cloud Solutions Architect jobs are open across financial services, healthcare, retail, and technology, from mid-level to principal and distinguished architect, with specializations in multi-cloud strategy, cloud migration, and enterprise platform design. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Pre-Sales Solutions Architect with strong expertise in AWS Cloud, application migration, modernization, and managed services. The ideal candidate will work closely with sales, customers, and delivery teams to define cloud transformation strategies, develop winning solutions, create compelling proposals, and support business development efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with customers to understand their business objectives, technical landscape, and cloud transformation goals.
- Lead discovery workshops and perform assessments for infrastructure, applications, databases, and cloud environments.
- Design end-to-end AWS cloud migration, modernization, and managed services solutions.
- Develop migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, and retain approaches.
- Create high-quality solution architectures, proposals, presentations, and pricing models.
- Collaborate with sales teams throughout the opportunity lifecycle, including client meetings, technical discussions, and executive presentations.
- Respond to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs with technically sound and commercially competitive solutions.
- Define transition, transformation, and managed services operating models, including SLAs, governance, support processes, and automation.
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure seamless handovers from sales to execution.
- Build reusable solution assets, proposal templates, estimation models, and reference architectures.
- Stay current with AWS services, cloud-native technologies, AI-powered operations, security, and industry best practices.
Required Skills
- Excellent customer-facing and presentation skills.
- Strong consulting and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
- Experience collaborating with global sales and delivery teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with proposal, pricing, and estimation expertise.
- Ability to manage multiple opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
AWS Cloud - AWS Solutions Architecture
- AWS Migration & Modernization
- Cloud assessment and discovery
- Application portfolio rationalization
- 6R/7R migration strategies
- Cloud operation, Monitoring and observability
- Incident, Problem, and Change Management
- FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Pre-Sales & Solutioning
- Solution architecture
- Customer presentations and executive communication
- Proposal writing
- RFP/RFI/RFQ response management
- Effort estimation and pricing
- Risk assessment
- Executive presentations
- Stakeholder management
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8–15 years of experience in cloud consulting, pre-sales, or solution architecture.
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience leading cloud transformation engagements for enterprise customers.
- Strong understanding of managed services and cloud operations.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Orion Systems Integrators, LLC and its subsidiaries and its affiliates (collectively, "Orion," "we" or "us") are committed to protecting your privacy. This Candidate Privacy Policy (orioninc.com) ("Notice") explains:
- What information we collect during our application and recruitment process and why we collect it;
- How we handle that information; and
- How to access and update that information.
Your use of Orion services is governed by any applicable terms in this notice and our general Privacy Policy.
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Pre-Sales Solutions Architect with strong expertise in AWS Cloud, application migration, modernization, and managed services. The ideal candidate will work closely with sales, customers, and delivery teams to define cloud transformation strategies, develop winning solutions, create compelling proposals, and support business development efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with customers to understand their business objectives, technical landscape, and cloud transformation goals.
- Lead discovery workshops and perform assessments for infrastructure, applications, databases, and cloud environments.
- Design end-to-end AWS cloud migration, modernization, and managed services solutions.
- Develop migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, and retain approaches.
- Create high-quality solution architectures, proposals, presentations, and pricing models.
- Collaborate with sales teams throughout the opportunity lifecycle, including client meetings, technical discussions, and executive presentations.
- Respond to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs with technically sound and commercially competitive solutions.
- Define transition, transformation, and managed services operating models, including SLAs, governance, support processes, and automation.
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure seamless handovers from sales to execution.
- Build reusable solution assets, proposal templates, estimation models, and reference architectures.
- Stay current with AWS services, cloud-native technologies, AI-powered operations, security, and industry best practices.
Required Skills
- Excellent customer-facing and presentation skills.
- Strong consulting and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
- Experience collaborating with global sales and delivery teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with proposal, pricing, and estimation expertise.
- Ability to manage multiple opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
AWS Cloud - AWS Solutions Architecture
- AWS Migration & Modernization
- Cloud assessment and discovery
- Application portfolio rationalization
- 6R/7R migration strategies
- Cloud operation, Monitoring and observability
- Incident, Problem, and Change Management
- FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Pre-Sales & Solutioning
- Solution architecture
- Customer presentations and executive communication
- Proposal writing
- RFP/RFI/RFQ response management
- Effort estimation and pricing
- Risk assessment
- Executive presentations
- Stakeholder management
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8–15 years of experience in cloud consulting, pre-sales, or solution architecture.
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience leading cloud transformation engagements for enterprise customers.
- Strong understanding of managed services and cloud operations.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidate Privacy Policy
Orion Systems Integrators, LLC and its subsidiaries and its affiliates (collectively, "Orion," "we" or "us") are committed to protecting your privacy. This Candidate Privacy Policy (orioninc.com) ("Notice") explains:
- What information we collect during our application and recruitment process and why we collect it;
- How we handle that information; and
- How to access and update that information.
Your use of Orion services is governed by any applicable terms in this notice and our general Privacy Policy.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Automotive
- Electronics & Hardware
- Distribution & Wholesale
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cloud solutions architect jobs.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying solutions on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent professional certification
- Experience architecting multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments at enterprise scale
- Strong understanding of cloud security frameworks, identity management, and compliance controls
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a closely related field
Tips for Your Cloud Solutions Architect Job Search
Align certifications to your target stack
Hiring teams filter resumes by cloud platform first. If you're targeting AWS-heavy roles, lead with AWS Solutions Architect credentials. For Azure-dominant organizations, put your Azure certifications above any others. Misalignment here costs you interviews before a human reads your resume.
Quantify architecture decisions, not just duties
Your resume should show the scale of what you designed: workload volumes, cost reductions from optimization work, or latency improvements from architectural changes. Generic bullets like 'designed cloud infrastructure' lose to candidates who describe the actual scope and outcome of their work.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cloud solutions architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by platform, not just title
A cloud solutions architect role at an AWS-native startup requires a completely different skill set than the same title at a hybrid-cloud enterprise. Search by platform keywords alongside the job title so the roles you apply to actually match your depth.
Prepare a whiteboard architecture walkthrough
Most cloud solutions architect interviews include a live design exercise. Practice walking through a multi-tier application architecture out loud, explaining tradeoffs between services as you go. Interviewers evaluate your reasoning process as much as your final design.
Negotiate scope before accepting an offer
Cloud solutions architect roles vary widely in actual authority. Before accepting, clarify whether you have final say on architecture decisions or act in an advisory capacity. Scope determines your day-to-day impact and your long-term growth in the role.
Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cloud solutions architects?
The companies hiring the most cloud solutions architects right now include Microsoft, Naka Technologies, and Amazon Web Services, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in financial services, healthcare systems, and technology consulting firms undertaking large-scale cloud transformation programs.
How many cloud solutions architect jobs are remote?
About 75% of cloud solutions architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the consultative and design-focused nature of the role. Sub-specializations like cloud migration strategy, platform architecture review, and pre-sales architecture work tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles tied to regulated industries often require some on-site presence.
How do you become a cloud solutions architect?
Start by building hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform through project work, then earn a recognized professional certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Move into roles with increasing architectural responsibility, like cloud engineer or technical lead, and develop skills in infrastructure-as-code, cost optimization, and stakeholder communication. A portfolio of real architectural decisions you've owned accelerates the transition into dedicated architect roles.
Can you get a cloud solutions architect job with little experience?
Breaking in with limited experience is possible if you build a demonstrable portfolio of cloud architecture work, even through personal projects or open-source contributions, and earn a platform certification before applying. Many employers hire associate-level architects from strong cloud engineering or DevOps backgrounds. Targeting consulting firms and managed service providers can also help, since they hire architects at earlier career stages than large enterprises typically do.
What does the cloud solutions architect interview process look like?
Most processes begin with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical interview covering cloud platform knowledge and architecture principles. Candidates then complete a live whiteboard or virtual design exercise where they walk through a solution to a realistic business problem. Final rounds typically involve a panel of senior engineers or architects and may include a business case or presentation component assessing how you communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to cloud solutions architect jobs?
You can find and apply to cloud solutions architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your platform experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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