Cloud Modernization Delivery Lead - Professional Services

Amazon; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services is hiring a Delivery Consultant – Application Modernization in Ottawa to lead modernization of complex enterprise applications on AWS. You will design, implement and re-architect solutions, guiding migrations and cloud-native patterns while aligning with security and compliance best practices.

You will partner with customers and cross-functional teams, mentoring others, and delivering reusable artifacts.

Qualifications

• AWS Professional level certification
• Hands-on experience modernizing complex enterprise applications
• Hands-on experience building sophisticated cloud native applications
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA)
• AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
• Experience with automation and scripting (Terraform, Python)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to lead software engineering best practices across testing, source control, code reviews, and deployment/release management processes

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementation of complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support throughout project delivery
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose effective migration strategies
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts
• Helping customers modernize legacy applications using proven patterns such as strangler fig and anti-corruption layers
• Decomposing monoliths into microservices and serverless architectures (Lambda, ECS/EKS, Fargate, Step Functions, EventBridge)
• Modernizing legacy stacks (e.g., .NET Framework → .NET Core, Java EE → Spring Boot, mainframe/COBOL transformation)
• Database modernization using RDS, Aurora, DMS, and schema conversion tooling
• Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams

Skills

AWS certification

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Communication

Automation

Python

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

EC2

S3

RDS

Lambda

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services is hiring a Delivery Consultant – Application Modernization in Ottawa to lead modernization of complex enterprise applications on AWS. You will design, implement and re-architect solutions, guiding migrations and cloud-native patterns while aligning with security and compliance best practices.

You will partner with customers and cross-functional teams, mentoring others, and delivering reusable artifacts.