Amazon Senior Migration Architect Enterprise Transformation 

Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich 

947582838

Key job responsibilities
• Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services onto the AWS platform
• Build repeatable mechanisms, architectures, solutions, and playbooks to enable faster, cheaper, predictable, and risk-free workload migrations to AWS
• Define and execute on the technology migration strategy by engaging highly technical teams within AWS (other Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners) to define migration pathways.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS
• Work with the team to drive POCs to completion
• Work with the team to organize technical workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across teams
• Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”
• 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…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.About the team
Diverse Experiences
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• 10+ years of hands-on technical design, implementation or consulting experience.
• 5+ years of experience in customer/partner facing senior technical positions within solution architecture or technical sales teams, and enterprise solution selling experience.
• Experience leading architecture for public cloud migrations (AWS, Azure or GCP) and multi-tower global customer transformations in areas such as mainframe, SAP, or Oracle.
• Broad based technology experience including: cloud migration, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, networking, security, storage, compute, continuous deployment, containers, and management and monitoring.
• Experience leading white boarding sessions and delivering multi-day workshops to architects, operations staff, developers, and cloud technologist
• Demonstrated ownership of a large IT project or software development effort
• 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
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of concepts, implementation, patterns, and issues of at least four technology areas
• Strong leadership capabilities, having the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse set of customers or partners, across multiple disciplines.
• Strong presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and Executive audiences.
• Strong judgement and business acumen in determining strategic vision and running a complex technical business.
• Bachelor's Degree in Technical Discipline or equivalent.

• A Master’s Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent technical degree
• 10+ years of experience with teams architecting and deploying complex solutions for enterprise customers
• 5+ years of experience architecting and deploying cloud solutions
• Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms
• Experience architecting and deploying production cloud workloads on AWS
• Enterprise Architecture experience, and building modern cloud strategies
• Experience executing large scale data center transformation or application migration and modernization projects
• Cloud and/or AWS experience; AWS Certifications or other cloud certifications.
• Experience in SAP migration to the cloud, or Mainframe migration/modernization.
• International technical sales and delivery experience w/ global F500 enterprise customers and partners.