Cloud Migration Architect, GFS EMEA

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Sector: Construction and Building Services, Technology
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION

As a Migration Consultant, you will work with customers and partners, guiding them through planning, preparing and delivery of complex transformation and migration projects based on varying customer needs. You will contribute to building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships with C-level executives to shape their cloud migration and transformation roadmap.

On a daily basis, you will work together with customers to assess their organizational readiness to perform cloud adoption. You will help them define goals, objectives and business outcomes. You will develop and align cloud vision together with relevant stakeholders to meet those outcomes. You will identify solutions that help a customer, partner, or an internal team overcome technical as well as organizational challenges. You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to support pre-sales activities.
This role is customer-facing and requires the ability to travel for projects.

Do you look around corners for ways to engage and service customers? Are you passionate about using technology to solve business problems that have a big customer impact?
Come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities

1. Convey the value of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program and other investment programs related to migration and modernization to senior customer stakeholders.
2. Engage senior customer technical and business decision makers on the benefits of migrating to AWS.
3. Help customers make the case for change and develop business cases for migrating to AWS.
4. Deliver workshops that help customers assess their current state, define their future state, and develop cloud migration plans.
5. Build compelling proposals to help customers achieve business value from migrations, then create and deliver commercial agreements to customers.
6. Log and track opportunities in our sales opportunity tracking system.
7. Keep management updated on the status of the migration go-to-market in your assigned territory using Amazon writing mechanisms.
8. Oversee customer migration success post-commercial commitment.
9. Conduct customer briefings, present at customer and AWS events, further AWS thought leadership in the IT and business transformation domain.

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

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

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led 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.

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life 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, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

1. 5+ years in delivering large-scale migration programs with hands-on expertise in two or more of the following domains: migration strategy design, migration business case creation, application portfolio analysis, application assessment, migration process design, migration tool implementation, migration execution, or operational integration.
2. Proven track record as a migration or modernization specialist in customer-facing roles.
3. Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical aspects in an enterprise environment and solid experience with project management and agile methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, PMP, ACP, Prince 2, or any other).
4. Excellent French and English communication skills.

1. Experience with migrating workloads from on-premise to Cloud Platforms and deploying and using migration, and Application Portfolio Discovery tools such as CloudEndure, ModelizeIT, Device42, MGN.
2. Exposure to the AWS platform and its compute, storage, networking and migration services.
3. Experience working directly with customers and partners as well as prior consulting experience working directly with customers and partners.