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 UK practice.
AWS helps thousands of organizations migrate to the cloud and free up resources by lowering IT costs while improving productivity, operational resiliency, and business agility. Migrations to AWS include moving any workload – application, website, database, storage, physical or virtual server, or an entire data center - from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud to AWS.
About you
Are you a technical professional with experience working on technical and business transformations? Have you migrated IT workloads to the cloud? Have you led large, complex application and modernization programs? Are you able to engage in executive conversations on how customers can achieve greater agility, efficiency, and sustained competitive advantage by migrating and modernizing to the cloud? Can you work equally well with executives and technologists, shaping and leading highly-visible, highly-impactful migration projects that are transformational ?
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 UK 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 design and deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale and performance, and in turn, enable breakthrough innovations. You will create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present them in large forums and across various media platforms. You will guide customers’ technical architecture and investments, maximizing alignment with the platform, and ease of adoption as new services and products become available.
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
AWS Professional Services presents a real opportunity to transform service delivery as well as increase operational efficiencies, and we need passionate, experienced cloud consultants to help our customers realise those benefits.
Our consultants collaborate with customer teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects, workshops and architecture assessments, provide advisory services and lead implementation projects working with AWS customers.
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
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 & 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.
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.
- Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience as technical specialist in design and architecture
- Experience in database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis)
- Experience in cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system
- A UK national and able to obtain UK Government Security Clearance (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels)- Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions
- AWS Associate or Professional or speciality certification
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