Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries

Sr. Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries

DESCRIPTION
As a Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect in AWS Industries, you will engage with senior technical and business leaders of enterprises to help them achieve increased agility and create significant business value by migrating to AWS. You will work equally well with executives and technologists, leading high-visibility, high-impact IT transformation projects that are technically broad and deep. You understand the challenges of cloud migration and modernization projects, and have experience leading technical strategy and enterprise architecture across diverse global teams, driving change and business value at significant scale.

The Migration & Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect works alongside our enterprise account teams to help customers accelerate their cloud migration and modernization journey. You will work with Account Managers and Solutions Architects assigned to high-value enterprises in a geography, helping them to effectively lead migration assessment, readiness, and strategy across a broader team of cross-functional resources within such enterprises.

In this role, you will collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, and our Partner teams to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the Migration Acceleration Program. You will showcase hands-on technical credibility with technical leaders, and act as a mentor to other Solutions Architects on migration best practices. As a thought leader, you observe and share trends and best practices through speaking engagements at conferences, blog posts, white papers, and code samples.

Key Job Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

1. Engaging with large, multinational customers to inspire, define, and execute on cloud migration strategies, demonstrating thought-leadership and a 'can do' approach to enterprise migration and modernization, working backwards from customer needs.
2. Creating and positioning an innovative and compelling vision and value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the financial benefits and transformational value of migrating to AWS.
3. Working with customers to resolve complex core business migration and modernization concerns with the AWS platform through deep dive discussions, strategic presentations and recommendations, and hands-on demonstrations in the AWS environment.
4. Engaging with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration and modernization.
5. Identifying improvement opportunities, influencing future iterations of AWS services and the Migration Acceleration Program.

About the Team

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

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, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

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.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

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.

Mentorship and Career Growth

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking.
• Experience working with end user or developer communities.
• Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering).

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