Senior Cloud Migrations Architect Professional Services

DESCRIPTION
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Migration Consultant to join the AWS Professional Services team supporting our customers within our Public Sector practice.

AWS helps thousands of organizations migrate to the cloud and free up resources by lowering IT costs while improving productivity operational resiliency and business agility. Migrations to AWS include moving any workload application website database storage physical or virtual server or an entire data center from an onpremises environment hosting facility or other public cloud to AWS.

About you

Are you a technical professional with experience working on technical and business transformations Have you migrated IT workloads to the cloud Have you led large complex application and modernization programs Are you able to engage in executive conversations on how customers can achieve greater agility efficiency and sustained competitive advantage by migrating and modernizing to the cloud Can you work equally well with executives and technologists shaping and leading highlyvisible highlyimpactful migration projects that are transformational

AWS Professional Services provides a flexible career path providing you access to learn AWS Services and gain AWS and industry Certifications. We encourage you to use your creative cloud skills to implement technical and business solutions for our customers.

This is a customer facing role however we operate a hybrid working model (remote and face to face). You will be required to travel to client locations to deliver professional services to our customers when required.


Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Consultant you will lead complex projects with autonomy and discretion often involving multiple Amazon customer and partner teams.

You will work with customers and partners leading them through planning prioritization and delivery of complex transformation and migration initiatives while collaborating with relevant Sales Service and Support Teams.

You will design and deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity scale and performance and in turn enable breakthrough innovations. You will create and apply architectural frameworks methods best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers and publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms. You will guide customers technical architecture and investments maximizing alignment with the platform and ease of adoption as new services and products become available.

You will help customers define target business outcomes and related work streams and lead the subsequent projects and initiatives to consistently exceed these goals.

As an Amazonian leader you will demonstrate the Amazon Leadership Principles coaching and mentoring others on best practices performance and career development.

A day in the life
Working Backwards from desired customer outcomes to design and deliver technical solutions
Creating articulating and positioning an innovative and compelling vision and value proposition for customers to migrate and modernize to the AWS cloud
Working on projects with autonomy and discretion
Collaborating across customers and partner teams to drive and shape solutions that accelerate customers business outcomes.
Working with large scale networks compute and storage architectures to help remove roadblocks in customer projects.
Advising customers how to implement solutions
Assisting customers with building Proof of Concepts and implementing AWS services
Collaborating with Sales and AWS Service Teams
Researching validating and beta testing new AWS Services
Presenting workshops one to one or one to many


About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

Bachelors degree in a Computer Science related discipline and/or experience in a professional field
Experience as a technical leader and specialist in the migrations domain design and architecture and a deep understanding of the 7 Rs disposition
Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent)
Experience in using Migration Tooling/Agents to automate the migration of a portfolio of applications from onpremise to the cloud and/or cloud to cloud

Experience integrating AWS cloud services with onpremise technologies (e.g. Microsoft IBM Oracle HP SAP)
Experience in consulting design application architecture and implementation of serverless distributed solutions
AWS Associate or Professional or speciality certification
German Language
Several years of experience leading other consultants in delivery
Experience in defining modernization pathways and cloudnative architectures for legacy applications

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