Amazon Cloud Migration Specialist Modernization 

United States, New York, New York 

536463964

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Key job responsibilities
• Lead a virtual team that drives customer engagement to identify and create opportunities for large-scale cloud migrations to AWS, and the associated customer business outcomes.
• Convey the value of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program and other investment programs related to migration and modernization to senior customer stakeholders.
• Engage senior customer technical and business decision makers on the benefits of migrating to AWS.
• Help customers make the case for change and develop business cases for migrating to AWS.
• Deliver workshops that help customers assess their current state, define their future state, and develop cloud migration plans.
• Build compelling proposals to help customers achieve business value from migrations, then create and deliver commercial agreements to customers.
• Log and track opportunities in our sales opportunity tracking system.
• Keep management updated on the status of the migration go-to-market in your assigned territory using Amazon writing mechanisms.
• Oversee customer migration success post-commercial commitment.
• Conduct customer briefings, present at customer and AWS events, further AWS thought leadership in the IT and business transformation domain.

- 7 years of experience in customer facing roles leading large scale transformation programs or extensive customer engagements.
- 5 years of relevant work experience in technology enabled consultative, delivery, solutions, or business development roles focused on enterprises.
- 5 years of experience in cloud technologies – deep understanding of public and hybrid cloud platforms.
- 7 years of experience developing, implementing, managing and executing field programs

- Deep experience with any of the following: shaping or leading large scale application migration or rationalization projects; shaping or leading data center exit projects; shaping or leading major modernization projects (e.g. re-architecting at scale to adopt cloud native practices)
- Deep industry experience, creating industry focused value propositions, experience speaking at external industry events on IT transformation
- Experience owning program strategy and end-to-end delivery.
- Education: an MBA is highly valued as is a technical background with Computer Science, and/or Engineering/Maths background is highly desired; working knowledge of software development practices and data center / infrastructure / networking technologies highly desired.