Practice Architect II-AWS MM

Role Description

The Practice Architect - AWS Migrations & Modernization is a client-facing consulting and delivery leadership role responsible for shaping and leading application and database migration and modernization engagements on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The architect translates business objectives, application portfolio characteristics, and legacy technology constraints into pragmatic target architectures, migration roadmaps, estimates, and delivery plans, while providing technical assurance from discovery through production cutover and optimization.

• Engagements may include portfolio assessments, proofs of concept, migration factories, application modernization programs, database transformations, and complex multi-workload initiatives for North American customers.
• The Practice Architect leads cross-functional delivery teams, performs hands-on architecture and solutioning, manages technical risks and dependencies, and ensures deliverables align with statements of work, security and compliance requirements, cost objectives, and measurable business outcomes.
• This role may require up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in information technology and/or professional services, with significant responsibility for solution architecture and client delivery.
• At least 3 years of experience as a Cloud Architect, Application Architect, Migration Architect, or equivalent role.
• At least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience and at least 3 years of application and/or database migration and modernization experience.
• Demonstrated success leading end-to-end AWS migration or modernization engagements from discovery and assessment through implementation, cutover, stabilization, and optimization.
• Ability to develop innovative, executable solutions to complex business and technology problems and to produce architecture diagrams, decision records, migration plans, estimates, and technical delivery artifacts.
• Strong knowledge of migration and modernization patterns, including rehost, relocate, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retain, and retire strategies.
• Hands-on experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications through runtime and framework upgrades, code refactoring, decomposition, API enablement, containerization, serverless adoption, or cloud-native redesign.
• Working depth in at least two application ecosystems among .NET/C#, Java/Spring/Spring Boot, and Python, with the ability to assess codebases, dependencies, build systems, testing approaches, and deployment models.
• Hands-on experience migrating or modernizing Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and/or PostgreSQL databases, including schema conversion, data validation, performance tuning, high availability, and cutover planning.
• Knowledge of AWS migration and data movement services such as AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Schema Conversion Tool or equivalent schema-conversion capabilities, AWS DataSync, and native backup/restore methods.
• Hands-on knowledge of core AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS/Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Secrets Manager, and Amazon CloudWatch.
• Experience with AWS enterprise foundations, including AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, multi-account landing zones, Amazon VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, identity, security, logging, and governance controls.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven and serverless architectures, RESTful APIs, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design principles.
• Experience with source control and software collaboration platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and artifact repositories.
• Experience configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent platforms.
• Hands-on scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages, plus the ability to review and reason about application code.
• Ability to apply generative AI and coding assistants to accelerate modernization work while maintaining secure development, intellectual property, privacy, quality, and human-approval controls.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, Linux, Windows, and hybrid connectivity in cloud or virtualized environments.
• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, operational excellence, and the ability to challenge technical decisions when architecture standards or best practices are not met.
• Ability to work across time zones, manage architecture tasks, dependencies, and risks for multiple concurrent engagements, and operate effectively with ambiguity.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present designs and tradeoffs to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to client locations to deliver professional services, as needed.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in information technology and/or professional services, including 5+ years of cloud architecture and 5+ years of AWS migration or modernization experience.
• Experience with AWS Transform for application, code, infrastructure, or migration transformation use cases, including .NET modernization, workload assessment, or custom transformation workflows.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for building, deploying, securing, governing, or operating agentic workflows that support modernization delivery.
• Hands-on AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) experience for repeatable cloud infrastructure and application deployment.
• Hands-on Terraform experience for enterprise infrastructure as code, modular platform engineering, and multi-environment deployment.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Developer, or comparable enterprise AI coding and automation tools used for software transformation, documentation, testing, and remediation.
• Experience building reusable modernization accelerators, migration factories, automated assessment pipelines, or large-scale code and database transformation capabilities.
• Advanced experience modernizing databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, or other fit-for-purpose AWS data services.
• Prior success automating production environments with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, or cloud-native equivalents.
• Expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, observability, security automation, infrastructure as code, and FinOps practices for modernized workloads.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve ambitious goals in a highly innovative, fast-paced consulting environment and to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Company Description

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.