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Solutions Architect roles qualify for green card sponsorship under EB-2 for advanced-degree professionals and EB-3 for skilled professionals with a bachelor's degree. Employers file a PERM labor certification with the DOL before sponsoring your I-140 petition, locking in a priority date that determines your place in the permanent residency queue.
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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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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.
INTRODUCTION
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Solutions Architect
Document your architecture credentials before applying
PERM requires your employer to prove you meet the job's minimum requirements before they post it. Gather degree transcripts, cloud or enterprise architecture certifications, and employer letters that map your experience to specific systems you've designed.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Not every company that hires Solutions Architects will sponsor PERM. Search OFLC disclosure data to identify employers who have filed PERM applications for this exact job title, not just H-1B visa petitions, which follow a separate process.
Search green card roles using Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters jobs by employers with documented green card sponsorship history for Solutions Architect roles specifically. You can identify which companies are actively filing PERM rather than guessing from general job postings.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility with your employer early
Your employer decides whether to file under EB-2 or EB-3 based on how they define the role's minimum requirements. If the job genuinely requires a master's degree or equivalent, EB-2 gives you a shorter wait for most nationalities.
Ask about concurrent filing before accepting an offer
If your priority date is current when your I-140 is approved, USCIS allows you to file your I-485 adjustment of status concurrently. For architects from lower-backlog countries, this can cut months off your overall green card timeline.
Understand how the PERM prevailing wage shapes your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your specific location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating to confirm your offer meets the wage level required for your PERM filing.
Green Card Solutions Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Solutions Architect role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
It depends on how your employer defines the job's minimum requirements. If the position genuinely requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of progressive experience, EB-2 is the likely category. If it requires a bachelor's degree with standard experience, EB-3 applies. The employer's PERM job description controls this determination, not your actual credentials.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for Solutions Architects?
H-1B is a temporary status capped at six years without extension, subject to an annual lottery, and does not lead to permanent residency on its own. PERM sponsorship is the first step toward a green card, carries no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities, and results in lawful permanent residency. The tradeoff is time: PERM takes longer to process than an H-1B transfer, but it's permanent.
How long does the PERM process take for a Solutions Architect position?
The PERM labor certification itself currently takes roughly 12 to 18 months at the DOL, plus additional time for I-140 adjudication and I-485 processing or consular processing. For applicants from India or China, visa backlog wait times can extend the overall timeline by years. For nationals of most other countries, the total process from PERM filing to green card approval typically runs two to four years.
How can I find Solutions Architect jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Most job postings don't specify PERM sponsorship, so filtering by job title alone won't tell you which employers are willing to file. Migrate Mate surfaces Solutions Architect roles at employers with documented green card sponsorship history, so you can focus your applications on companies already familiar with the PERM process rather than educating employers from scratch.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved but before I get my green card?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days and your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days, portability rules allow you to change to a same or similar occupation without restarting the process. Solutions Architect roles are generally portable to comparable architecture or senior technical positions, but your new employer should review the SOC code alignment before you resign.