Are you a migrations expert who has experience with executing large-scale migrations from on-premises to AWS? Would you love to work with our customers to help them plan, prepare and execute large-scale migrations and leverage the benefits of the AWS Cloud? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing to do big new things faster and at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest application technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?
At AWS, we are hiring the best migration experts, who can help our clients and partners migrate their business-critical applications to take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS cloud. Our consultants will collaborate with partner and client teams to determine migration strategies, build migration business cases, analyze application portfolios, perform application assessments, develop migration plans, design migration processes, implement migration tools, support the migration execution, and ensure operational integration. These professional services engagements will focus on leading our customers through large-scale migration programs, business critical application migrations or the usage of new edge technology. You will be using the AWS migration methodology and AWS migration services such as AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Discovery Service and AWS Database Migration Service.
Key job responsibilities
* As Migration Consultant you will work with customers and partners, leading them through planning, prioritization and delivery of complex transformation and migration projects, while collaborating with relevant Sales and Service Teams.
* You will assess customers current organizational capabilities to perform the cloud adoption. You will help customers to define target business outcomes and related work streams.
* Based on the assessment results you will develop and align roadmaps together with relevant stakeholders. As part of the customer engagements you will take ownership for topics such as Application Portfolio Discovery, Business Case Calculation, Migration Strategy and Migration Execution.
* You take care about identifying solutions that solve difficult technical or organizational problems for a Customer, Partner, or an internal team. You help your team recommending a suitable technology, business model, operating model, strategy, or architecture.
* As a Migration Consultant you support Sales Activities as Subject Matter Expert for upcoming opportunities.
* As an Amazonian employee you will create reusable assets and share those within and outside of the AWS organization. You will create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms.
* This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.
About the team
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- Multiple project experiences 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.
- Proven track record as a technical specialist in customer-facing roles
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with Executives, IT Management, developers and business leaders.
- Developed capabilities to analyze and structure complex project situations. Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
- Good experience with project management and agile methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, PMP, ACP, Prince 2, or any other)- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Business Informatics, IT-Management, Physics, Engineering or Math
- Experience in managing complex Migration or Transformation Projects
- Experience with migrating applications from on-premises to the Cloud Platforms
- Hands-on experience with deploying and using migration tools and Application Portfolio Discovery Tools
- Exposure to the AWS platform and its compute, storage, networking and migration services
- Understanding of virtualization technologies and system architectures that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, etc.
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