Principal Solutions Architect, Modernization & Transformation, Migration & Modernization

About the role

Join us and help us grow. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring Application Modernization Solution Architects to work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey.

Responsibilities

• Work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey.
• Help customers maximize the benefits of the cloud through application modernization.
• Qualify, develop, and close deals around migrating and modernizing applications, including large-scale data center migrations, SAP, Oracle, VMware, and custom application refactoring.
• Work alongside our enterprise account teams and solution architects to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey, and modernize their business on AWS.
• Design modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more.
• Identify repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration.
• Engage with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer to identify repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration.
• Collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs), 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 mentor other AWS solution architects on migration best practices.
• Define and execute technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams within AWS (Solutions Architects, CSMs, Technical Account Managers, Professional Services consultants and Managed service partners).
• Deliver modern architectures such as microservices and event-driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities.
• Drive the co-development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities with the Geo business lead.
• Contribute to AWS internal and customer-facing publications such as white papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge.
• Identify platform improvements, influence future iterations of the AWS platform and the Migration Acceleration Program.
• Work as part of a cross-functional team to identify, develop, and close deals.
• Engage 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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
• Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement.