Senior Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect jobs are open across technology, financial services, healthcare, and government sectors, from senior individual contributor to principal and distinguished architect levels, with specializations in multi-cloud strategy, cloud migration, and enterprise infrastructure 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 senior cloud solutions architect jobs.
- 5 or more years of hands-on cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Professional-level cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft, or Google required or strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud migration or modernization programs
- Deep knowledge of cloud networking, security frameworks, identity management, and cost governance
- Ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear guidance for non-technical business stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related engineering discipline
Tips for Your Senior Cloud Solutions Architect Job Search
Quantify cloud architecture outcomes on your resume
Hiring managers for this role want measurable impact, not task lists. Replace phrases like 'designed cloud infrastructure' with specifics: what scale, what cost reduction, what availability improvement. Architects who can attach numbers to architectural decisions stand out immediately.
Align your certifications to the employer's cloud stack
An AWS-heavy resume sent to an Azure-first organization raises friction. Check job descriptions for the dominant provider before applying and lead with the certifications that match. If you hold multi-cloud credentials, surface the relevant one first for each application.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior 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.
Target roles by their architectural scope, not just title
Senior cloud solutions architect postings vary wildly from pre-sales advisory to deep infrastructure ownership. Read each job description for whether it expects customer-facing solutioning, internal platform ownership, or both. Applying without this distinction wastes time on roles that won't fit your background.
Prepare a whiteboard-ready architecture narrative
Most late-stage interviews for this role include a live design exercise. Practice walking through a reference architecture you built, explaining the trade-offs you made at each decision point. Panels evaluate how you reason under ambiguity, not whether your final diagram is perfect.
Negotiate scope and autonomy alongside compensation
At the senior architect level, what you're building matters as much as what you're earning. Before accepting an offer, ask directly what the architectural decision-making authority looks like, which projects you'd own, and whether greenfield or legacy modernization work dominates the roadmap.
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior cloud solutions architects?
The companies hiring the most senior 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 highest at cloud-native technology firms, major financial institutions, and large healthcare systems investing in infrastructure modernization.
How many senior cloud solutions architect jobs are remote?
About 75% of senior cloud solutions architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the advisory and documentation-heavy nature of much of the work. Roles focused on pre-sales cloud solutioning and enterprise architecture strategy tend to offer the highest remote flexibility, while positions tied to hands-on infrastructure delivery or government contracts more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a senior cloud solutions architect?
You typically start by building foundational cloud engineering skills in a hands-on role such as cloud engineer, infrastructure engineer, or DevOps engineer. From there, earning a professional-level certification on a major cloud platform demonstrates architectural depth. Progressing into a solutions architect role, leading cross-functional migration or design projects, and building a portfolio of delivered architectures positions you to move into senior scope and titles.
Can you get hired as a senior cloud solutions architect without direct experience in the title?
Yes, if you can demonstrate architectural ownership through adjacent roles. Employers focus on evidence of end-to-end design decisions, not the job title that came with the work. Cloud engineers or platform leads who have owned architecture for a significant workload, documented trade-off reasoning, and presented designs to stakeholders often compete successfully for senior architect roles, especially when supported by a professional-level certification.
What does the senior cloud solutions architect interview process look like?
The process typically opens with a recruiter screen focused on cloud experience and role fit, followed by a technical interview covering architecture patterns, security, and cost optimization. Most employers then run a live design exercise where you architect a solution on a whiteboard or shared document in real time. A final round with engineering leadership or business stakeholders assesses communication skills and strategic thinking before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to senior cloud solutions architect jobs?
You can find and apply to senior cloud solutions architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and target cloud platforms, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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