Specialist Solutions Architect – Cloud Migration and Modernization (EDU)

Job title: Specialist Solutions Architect – Cloud Migration and Modernization (EDU)

Company: Amazon

Job description: DESCRIPTION

This position can be located remotely or at an Amazon office within the contiguous United States.

Do you have a passion for helping customers achieve extensive business value by migrating and modernizing technology landscapes to AWS? Are you interested in helping them to retire technical debt and accelerate innovation?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and motivated senior customer-facing Solutions Architect in support of customer migration and modernization efforts.

As a Solutions Architect for Migrations you will work with our customers, guiding them through the details of Cloud transformation and migration of critical business workloads, accelerating the customers cloud migration journey.

As a Solution Architect for Migrations you will:
· Work alongside our enterprise account executives and solution architects to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey and modernize their business applications on AWS.
· Working with our strategic customers in our World-Wide Industry and Public Sector, you will help the customer assess their readiness for Cloud adoption and advise and guide the customer in developing a strategic plan to transform IT processes and organization to support their Cloud adoption.
· At the onset of a large migration engagement, you would focus on understanding customer business drivers as well as the compelling event/s driving their cloud adoption.
· Work with the AWS account team, Partner, and customer to help develop a comprehensive migration plan, lowering risk and cost while accelerating adoption.
· Collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, and our Partner team to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the AWS Migration Acceleration Program.
· Gain hands-on technical credibility with internal as well as customer technical leaders, and will mentor other AWS solution architects on migration best practices.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:
· Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS
· Defining and executing technical migration strategies by working with highly technical teams within AWS (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, Professional Services consultants and Managed services partners)
· Working with large scale network, compute and storage architectures to help remove roadblocks in customer migration projects
· Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration
· Driving the co-development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities with the Geo business lead.
· Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and the Migration Acceleration Program
· Engaging with C-level customer executives to inspire, define and execute on Enterprise cloud migration strategies demonstrating thought-leadership and a ‘can do’ approach to enterprise migrations, working backwards from customer needs

Post Pandemic Travel expectations: 30%

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ yrs experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of large-scale Enterprise Migration solutions
· 2+ years’ experience planning and executing large scale IT and business transformations to the cloud
· 2+ years’ experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to the public cloud
· Demonstrated experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration automation, and operations technologies and tools
· Undergraduate degree or 7+ years of experience in software design, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications in lieu of no Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military experience
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Previous experience with Public Sector or Regulated industries such as Education, Not for Profits, Federal or Defense and State and Local Government businesses.
· Demonstrated effectiveness working with customers and partners leadership teams to qualify, develop, and close deals on migrating and modernizing applications
· Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating on premises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
· 5+ years across Enterprise IT in multiple of the following areas: Infrastructure architecture; Database architecture; Networking; Zero downtime migrations, IT Security; Data Center Operations, Cloud operating models, Software design or development
· 5+ Experience architecting highly available, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling and high availability
· 4+ years’ experience planning and executing large scale IT and business transformations to the cloud
· Understanding large IT budgets, complex vendor relationships, and working with diverse teams to justify cloud migrations
· Depth in various migration techniques such as re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase, etc.
· A strong understand of enterprise applications (ERP), application architecture total cost of ownership (TCO), IT transformation of the organization, networking, storage, and enterprise data center environments.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://ift.tt/395YELS

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $122,300.00 – 160,000.00 yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon’s internal or external careers site.

Expected salary: $122300 – 160000 per year

Location: Herndon, VA

Job date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 02:10:43 GMT


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