Cloud Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

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

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