At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical cloud computing architects to help our partners develop technical expertise and capacity, while also collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on key customer solutions such as, web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery, education and government.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. The Practice of BCS (Business Continuity and Scalability) is a Shared Solution Team of Professional Services which focuses on developing fault-tolerant and resilient architecture to fulfill business continuity and scalability of customer’s business critical systems. Such systems include but don’t limit to Web-scale applications, and enterprise database & software like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Architect Consultant specialized in Microsoft workloads, who is passionate about the following responsibilities and abilities:
EXPERTISE
· Collaborate with AWS field teams and Service Teams to deliver applications into enterprise accounts
· Define and deliver application portfolio assessments and migration plans.
· Experience leveraging formal project management and development methodologies on enterprise level engagements.
· Possesses a deep knowledge of project management best practices and how to apply them in an effective yet pragmatic way across large, complex projects.
· Understanding of technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms and consumer facing technology.
SOLUTIONS
· Take Ownership of the entire customer migration journey.
· Actively looks for ways to improve process efficiencies and effectiveness.
· Ability to apply strategic thinking and demonstrate understanding of requirements to execute.
· Ability to make decisions guided by policies, procedures and migration playbook with limited guidance.
DELIVERY
· Deliver successful migration projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders internal and external.
· Plays an active role in managing project goals and driving teams to achieve customers’ business outcomes by managing issues, risks, decisions, and action items.
· Ability to take ownership, work under pressure and meet deadlines on time.
· Ability to challenge, recommend and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations during the engagement.
· Takes proactive steps to ensure teams meet or exceed customer expectations.
· Works effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.
· Results-oriented, prioritizes work activities, plans and stays organized in order to meet commitments.
COMMUNICATION
· Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with team members and audiences of all levels.
· Demonstrates the ability to understand the operating styles of others as well as team/client relationships, team dynamics, and adjusts behavior accordingly to succeed.
· Recognizes environmental or cultural nuances and adapts.
TEAMING
· Proven success in working with teams and executive leadership in a complex, global company environment.
· Team player who effectively integrates, motivates and builds relationships with cross-functional team members (local or remote), sponsors, key stakeholders, executives, and other individuals or organizations involved with or affected by the project.
· Negotiation and conflict resolution capabilities.