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DescriptionJob summaryAmazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced leader and motivated technologist who possess a unique balance of technical depth, strong interpersonal, and business acumen to drive enterprise transformation and lead a portfolio of large scale migrations. You will partner with customers, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to develop and execute highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud solutions that address customer migration use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. As trusted customer advocates, the Global Migration Practice helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will help shape and execute a strategy to deliver solutions for a broad range of customer use cases primarily from large enterprise customers. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.In this role, you would be part of leading a complex and ambitious program in scaling our Global Migration Practice, as well as elevating the technical execution and delivery within Regions. Achieving success will require coordination across many internal AWS teams and external AWS Partners, with impact and visibility at the highest levels of the company. You’ll need to make prioritization calls across the enterprise that require both keen business and technical judgment, and will also drive processes and execution goals.The successful candidate must have exceptional problem-solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated technical experience leading cross-functional teams. We are looking for a proven leader with the ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on new, ambiguous projects. In the Global Migration Specialty Practice, we’re hiring both highly technical cloud computing consultants and experienced business focused individuals to take leadership roles to develop and execute strategies for various phases of large scale migrations for customers rapidly moving large numbers of applications onto AWS. The Migration Specialty Area Lead will developing the market, driving customer consulting delivery, and will be responsible for driving the methodology by which we deliver Migration Projects for customers. This person will work with the Global Migration Team, AWS Regional Teams and AWS Partners to identify and leverage tools and technology that will be leveraged to build a blueprint of tools and processes that can then be used to plan and execute migration projects.Responsibilities include:Expertise - Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon EC2 compute, Amazon S3 storage, Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Service Catalog, Marketplace etc. Extensive experience leading and controlling large scale IT projects across multiple stakeholders.Solutions - Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in on-site visits, mapping customer business and technical requirements, and guiding the delivery of technical solutions, both AWS and AWS Partner led, designed to dig deep into the details of customer systems to be migrated to AWS.Delivery - Driving high personal and team utilization on customer engagements including working with customers and AWS Partners to discover and map hardware and software solutions on customer’s premise or alternate cloud solutions in order to build migration plans to move customer workloads to AWS.Feedback and Insights - Work with Global Migration team, AWS engineering and support teams to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps and improving migration program success. Share real world migration challenges and recommend new capabilities that would simplify adoption and drive greater success of AWS cloud migrations.Cross Functional – working with peer leaders in the Migrations Practice to develop cross-functional ability to augment each other’s roles when necessary or so as to provide perspective for improvement.This is a customer facing role. You may be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.About the teamAbout UsInclusive Team CultureHere 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 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 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS· 10+ years of product/information design, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications· 7+ years leading enterprise cloud migration projects and/or consulting engagements· Broad-based understanding of cloud platform services, cloud-native architectures, and cloud infrastructure· 5+ years of domain expertise in one of the industries such as Financial Services, Media & Entertainment and High Tech.· Bachelor's Degree or 10+ years of equivalent professional or military experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS· Computer Science or Engineering background· Demonstrated success as a software developer, application architect, release manager, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms· Experience with architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform· Experience with designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies· Experience with architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability· Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration, automated deployment and configuration management· Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)· Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems· Experience with presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, etc· Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers· Experience with blogging or writing technical articles or contributing to an open source project for new and existing technologies or application architecture and design· Participant in speaking engagements, published work, published blogs, and/or acquired patents, demonstrating industry notoriety· Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developersAmazon 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://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.For employees based in Colorado, this position starts at $122,300 per year. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.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://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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