Specialist SA, Migrations

We are looking for a seasoned Technology Architect who will play a pivotal role in developing and delivering automation solutions for cloud migrations. The ideal candidate will drive the development of reusable migration assets and artifacts that enable faster customer decision-making and scalable application migrations to AWS. You should be technically proficient, with a passion for learning and introducing new technologies, and possess excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical strategies to both internal stakeholders and customers. This hands-on role requires expertise in building automation solutions while maintaining strong partnerships across AWS departments, including services teams, marketing, and professional services. You'll be instrumental in helping colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technologies, ultimately driving successful cloud transformation initiatives.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive development of reusable migration assets and artifacts enabling faster customer decision-making and scalable application migrations to AWS
- Architect repeatable solutions, mechanisms, and playbooks for efficient, cost-effective, and low-risk workload migrations
- Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS Migration Solutions and tooling.
- Translate customer feedback into actionable insights for product teams
- Develop and maintain comprehensive migration documentation including whitepapers and best practices
- Spearhead POCs and prototypes through completion
- Lead technical engagement with cross-functional AWS teams to define and execute migration strategies
- Design, launch and deliver technical workshops to facilitate knowledge sharing
- Create and validate architectural best practices across diverse technology stacks
- Strategy & Innovation: articulate business/industry fundamentals (e.g., ROI, TCO, cost benefit analysis); understand regulations and operational excellence; familiarity with business strategy and trends in the IT industry (e.g., CI/CD, Migration, AI/ML…etc.).
- Technology Breadth: demonstrate architectural best practices applied across a breadth of technologies to solve organizational problems, articulate views/roadmaps for future development, and understand the interaction between infrastructure, operations, and development.

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Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

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