Senior Cloud Migrations Architect, Professional Services

**DESCRIPTION**:
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.

About you

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 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 customer’s 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

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 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.

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
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.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Bachelor's 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 R's disposition
- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent)

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
- AWS Associate or Professional or speciality certification
- German Language
- Several years of experience leading other consultants in delivery

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