Expert Solution Architect, Solution Design

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things ! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:

Honesty, Reliability, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Passion.

What We Do: Deliver end-to-end migration, infrastructure, and application support services. We lead the migration of business applications to AWS, Microsoft Azure public clouds, and strategic data centers, providing end-to-end support and collaborating closely with client application teams during transition to minimize business disruption.

We are seeking Expert Solution Architects to join our Solution Design team. This role is responsible for designing, leading, and governing the technical migration of workloads to cloud environments, providing end-to-end architecture leadership across discovery, migration, modernization, and stabilization, ensuring outcomes are aligned to business objectives.

PLEASE NOTE: We are looking for multiple Architects with either infrastructure or Application as the focus. The requirements below reflect these 2 different areas.

Key Responsibilities:

Target State Architecture & Solution Design

Develop Target State Architecture (TSA) design and migration strategy by identifying applications and defining the target state solution to support migration workstreams, conducting application discovery and dependency mapping, developing application lists and migration waves, defining target-state architecture aligned with security, compliance, and governance, and developing high-level migration roadmaps.

Create blueprints for target environments including a bill of materials containing hosting assets and configuration details. The TSA Document will include a logical and physical network layout showing the relationship of hosts to LAN, WAN, and cloud/target environment.

Architecture Consultation & Migration Planning

Analyze data collection, refine Workstream Migration Plans, and optimize communication among stakeholders. Provide services including migration planning and execution, architecture consultation, application and data migration, disaster recovery infrastructure configuration, connectivity to AWS/Azure services, database migration, server buildout, network configuration, and integration into Active Directory.

Conduct and validate discovery and assessment information; facilitate application and technical workshops with stakeholders; review target architectures, migration strategies, and project plans; and develop detailed migration strategies, wave plans, and runbooks.

Cloud Architecture & Platform Services

Assess current architecture and map components to AWS/Azure IaaS services such as EC2/AMI, ExaData/SQL MI, Service Bus, and managed storage. Deploy and configure infrastructure aligned to client standards. Perform mandatory OS platform upgrades, changes, and re-platforming to meet minimum security standards. Provision all IaaS services using Harness, Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep.

Assess current architecture and map components to AWS/Azure PaaS services such as App Services, Functions, API Gateway, RDS/Azure SQL, Service Bus and managed storage. Make required code updates, configuration adjustments, connection string changes, and environment variable updates needed for compatibility with cloud PaaS services. Provision all PaaS services using Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep.

Governance & Technical Oversight

Participate in governance and review boards, ensuring technical oversight and troubleshooting throughout the migration process.

Develop migration strategy that includes wave planning, Target State Architecture Document, Migration Runbooks and Cutover Plans, technical governance, infrastructure testing, detailed cutover planning, and post-migration Hypercare support.

Security & Compliance

Perform and coordinate vulnerability scanning, authentication/authorization testing, and data security testing.

Implement security controls, base tagging for FinOps, monitoring dashboards, and updating runbooks and DR plans. Deploy private cloud-based PaaS OS instances with minimal changes using pre-existing automated deployment methods.

Cutover & Post-Migration Support

Own migration planning, parallel runs, cutover execution, rollback planning, and post-go-live stabilization.

Migrate databases and file systems to managed PaaS platforms with schema prep, data migration, reconciliation, and validation. Containerize applications "as-is" and deploy to managed container platforms (ECS/EKS/AKS/App Service Containers) without code changes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical Expertise

Deep expertise in AWS and Microsoft Azure public cloud platforms

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Harness

Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Experience with database migration and storage modernization strategies

Knowledge of containerization and managed container platforms (ECS/EKS/AKS/App Service Containers)

Architecture & Design

Proven experience developing Target State Architecture (TSA) documentation

Ability to conduct application discovery and dependency mapping

Experience designing solutions aligned with security, compliance, and governance standards

Strong understanding of disaster recovery infrastructure configuration

Security & Compliance

Experience with security scanning programs (SAST, DAST, SCA, Container Scanning, IaC Scanning)

Knowledge of vulnerability scanning, authentication/authorization testing, and data security testing

Familiarity with SSO integration and CMK (Customer Managed Keys)

Application Design experience:

Key Requirements

Strong software engineering or application development background with hands-on experience designing enterprise applications

Able to architect applications from the code up, with a deep understanding of software design and development principles

Technical Expertise

Application Modernization – refactoring, re-platforming and containerizing legacy applications for cloud-native environments

Cloud Architecture – experience designing and delivering solutions on AWS and/or Azure. AWS is the preference.

Cloud-Native Technologies & Patterns – such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), serverless architectures

Microservices Architecture – design, development and migration of microservices-based applications

Java and/or .NET Development – strong hands-on coding background with enterprise-scale application experience

Delivery & Leadership

Proven track record leading application migrations from on-premises to cloud

Strong stakeholder management and ability to guide engineering teams through modernization and transformation initiatives

Soft Skills

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Ability to facilitate application and technical workshops

Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities

Experience working in governance frameworks with issue, risk, and escalation management

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of experience in solution architecture and cloud migration

AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification

Experience working in financial services or highly regulated industries

Knowledge of FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization

Experience with AI/ML integration in migration programs

Work Location & Schedule

Locations: Quincy, MA or P