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At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.
As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will work with Mission Cloud’s customers to develop strategic solutions leveraging the AWS portfolio, focused on WorkSpaces. You will work with our Project Management and Cloud Engineering teams to provide Mission’s Professional Services to the accounts and projects to which you’re aligned. As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll be the primary point of contact for your accounts.
Our Cloud Solution Architects are responsible for holding regular consulting sessions to build a roadmap for further optimization, automation, and resiliency while the hands-on engineers execute the roadmap items driving world-class outcomes.
This position is 100% remote. Occasional travel may be required.
Responsibilities
- Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs
- Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices
- Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
- Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
- Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership
- Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date
- Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps
- Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction
- Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning
- Mentor Cloud Engineers
Requirements
- Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role
- Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents
- Ability to lead customer-facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work
- Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
- Ability to present solutions to customers, overcome objectives, and create consensus
- Extensive experience designing and deploying AWS WorkSpaces and AppStream/WorkSpaces Applications environments aligned to user personas, including persistent and non-persistent models. Must have led persona-based pilots/PoCs, including success criteria definition, compatibility validation, rollback planning, and user readiness considerations.
- Strong knowledge of networking for end-user computing. Must have experience with bandwidth planning, latency/RTT targets, and client connectivity considerations. Must be able to troubleshoot and remediate user experience issues caused by network conditions.
- Hands-on experience designing AWS VPC connectivity for EUC, including DNS considerations, directory reachability, routing, and enterprise connectivity patterns (e.g., VPN/Direct Connect) for WorkSpaces environments.
- Expertise with Active Directory integration and SSO standards for VDI environments, including SAML-based federation patterns and associated prerequisites/claims mapping.
- Experience designing and operating certificate-based or passwordless authentication.
- Experience with application management and virtualization, including Intune, SCCM, golden image creation, and app streaming.
- Expertise within OS and end-user computing environments (Windows/Linux WorkSpaces, profile management, and peripheral support). Demonstratable experience with OS hardening, application packaging, performance optimization (login time/resource usage), and lifecycle management (versioning/patching/testing).
- Proficiency managing WorkSpaces via automation and scripting, leveraging CLS/SDK/PowerShell tooling to standardize provisioning, configuration changes, and operational tasks at scale.
- Experience implementing EUC observability and operational readiness, including monitoring signals, troubleshooting workflows, and support playbooks for connection/performance incidents.
- Experience modernizing/migrating from VDI platforms (e.g., Citrix, Horizon, AVD) to AWS WorkSpaces, including application dependency analysis, sequencing and wave planning, and cutover planning.
- Ability to integrate WorkSpaces with enterprise SaaS solutions (e.g., Microsoft 365, Google Drive) while maintaining security and user experience.
- Demonstrated capability to identify security gaps and produce actionable remediation recommendations to strengthen a client’s VDI/EUC security posture (network boundary controls, identity posture, access controls).
- Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.
Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
Description
At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.
As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will work with Mission Cloud’s customers to develop strategic solutions leveraging the AWS portfolio, focused on WorkSpaces. You will work with our Project Management and Cloud Engineering teams to provide Mission’s Professional Services to the accounts and projects to which you’re aligned. As a Cloud Solution Architect, you’ll be the primary point of contact for your accounts.
Our Cloud Solution Architects are responsible for holding regular consulting sessions to build a roadmap for further optimization, automation, and resiliency while the hands-on engineers execute the roadmap items driving world-class outcomes.
This position is 100% remote. Occasional travel may be required.
Responsibilities
- Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs
- Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices
- Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
- Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
- Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership
- Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date
- Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps
- Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction
- Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning
- Mentor Cloud Engineers
Requirements
- Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role
- Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents
- Ability to lead customer-facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work
- Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
- Ability to present solutions to customers, overcome objectives, and create consensus
- Extensive experience designing and deploying AWS WorkSpaces and AppStream/WorkSpaces Applications environments aligned to user personas, including persistent and non-persistent models. Must have led persona-based pilots/PoCs, including success criteria definition, compatibility validation, rollback planning, and user readiness considerations.
- Strong knowledge of networking for end-user computing. Must have experience with bandwidth planning, latency/RTT targets, and client connectivity considerations. Must be able to troubleshoot and remediate user experience issues caused by network conditions.
- Hands-on experience designing AWS VPC connectivity for EUC, including DNS considerations, directory reachability, routing, and enterprise connectivity patterns (e.g., VPN/Direct Connect) for WorkSpaces environments.
- Expertise with Active Directory integration and SSO standards for VDI environments, including SAML-based federation patterns and associated prerequisites/claims mapping.
- Experience designing and operating certificate-based or passwordless authentication.
- Experience with application management and virtualization, including Intune, SCCM, golden image creation, and app streaming.
- Expertise within OS and end-user computing environments (Windows/Linux WorkSpaces, profile management, and peripheral support). Demonstratable experience with OS hardening, application packaging, performance optimization (login time/resource usage), and lifecycle management (versioning/patching/testing).
- Proficiency managing WorkSpaces via automation and scripting, leveraging CLS/SDK/PowerShell tooling to standardize provisioning, configuration changes, and operational tasks at scale.
- Experience implementing EUC observability and operational readiness, including monitoring signals, troubleshooting workflows, and support playbooks for connection/performance incidents.
- Experience modernizing/migrating from VDI platforms (e.g., Citrix, Horizon, AVD) to AWS WorkSpaces, including application dependency analysis, sequencing and wave planning, and cutover planning.
- Ability to integrate WorkSpaces with enterprise SaaS solutions (e.g., Microsoft 365, Google Drive) while maintaining security and user experience.
- Demonstrated capability to identify security gaps and produce actionable remediation recommendations to strengthen a client’s VDI/EUC security posture (network boundary controls, identity posture, access controls).
- Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.
Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Document your architecture credentials precisely
PERM requires your employer to prove the role genuinely needs your qualifications. Gather transcripts, certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Expert, and project records showing advanced cloud design work before your employer begins labor certification.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 eligibility early
If your Senior Cloud Solutions Architect role requires a master's degree or equivalent, push for EB-2 classification. EB-2 skips the skilled-worker queue and typically moves faster for non-backlogged countries, which affects your practical timeline significantly.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Not every company that hires cloud architects has navigated PERM before. Search Migrate Mate to find employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history in technology and infrastructure roles, narrowing your search to organizations already familiar with the process.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay the DOL-certified prevailing wage for your role and location throughout the PERM process. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the Level III or Level IV wage for your SOC code before negotiating compensation.
Ask directly about concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing
If a visa number is immediately available for your category and country, your employer can file the I-140 petition and your I-485 adjustment of status simultaneously. Confirm with USCIS priority date charts whether concurrent filing applies to your situation before the offer stage.
Align job description language with O*NET standards
PERM audits often scrutinize whether stated job requirements are standard for the occupation. Cross-reference your employer's draft job description against the O*NET profile for cloud architecture roles to ensure minimum requirements aren't inflated beyond industry norms, which can stall certification.
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Does a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Senior Cloud Solutions Architect positions qualify for EB-2 sponsorship if the employer requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five or more years of progressive experience. Roles that define the minimum as a bachelor's degree with standard experience typically fall under EB-3 as a skilled worker. The classification depends on how the employer drafts the PERM job requirements, not on your personal credentials alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B is a temporary status with a three-year initial period and an annual cap lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no renewal cycles and no cap concerns at the EB-3 skilled-worker level for most countries outside India and China. The trade-off is time: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to a year before the I-140 is even filed.
How long does the full EB-2 or EB-3 green card process take for a cloud architect?
For applicants from countries without visa backlogs, the end-to-end process from PERM filing to green card approval typically runs two to three years. PERM itself takes six to twelve months, I-140 adjudication adds another six to twelve months under standard processing, and I-485 adjustment of status adds additional time if a visa number isn't immediately available. Indian and Chinese nationals face significantly longer waits due to per-country annual limits.
Where can I find Senior Cloud Solutions Architect jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for cloud architecture roles where employers have documented EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship history, so you're not spending time applying to companies that have never navigated PERM. Filtering by sponsorship track record is especially useful for senior-level roles where PERM job requirements are more specialized and employer experience with the process matters.
Can my employer start PERM while I'm on H-1B, and what happens if my H-1B expires?
Yes, employers routinely file PERM while you hold H-1B status, and you can continue working as long as your H-1B remains valid. If your I-140 is approved and has been pending for 365 days, you may qualify for H-1B extensions beyond the six-year cap under AC21 portability rules. USCIS governs this extension path, so confirm your I-140 approval date and current status before your sixth year approaches.
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