Delivery Consultant, AWS Professional Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Delivery Consultant to collaborate with customers on designing, migrating and modernizing cloud apps with GenAI‑accelerated techniques. You will guide architecture decisions, drive best practices, and lead complex migrations across AWS services while minimizing risk.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivering scalable, secure solutions, including modernization of legacy apps and serverless patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions.
• 2+ years of experience architecting/operating AWS-based solutions across EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing complex, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Leading complex migrations and cloud migration strategies (6Rs) with tooling to accelerate transitions.
• Conducting discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with stakeholders and translating into architecture recommendations.
• Exerting technical influence across teams with architectural guidance.
• Acting as a trusted advisor on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Helping customers modernize legacy apps using proven patterns and decomposing monoliths into microservices and serverless.

Skills

Infra automation

Consulting experience

AWS architecture

AI integration

Programming languages

IaC

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

Description

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team is seeking a skilled Delivery Consultant, to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you’ll work closely with customers to design, develop, implement and re‑engineer applications to fully leverage the AWS Cloud, including GenAI‑accelerated modernization techniques. You’ll be a key leader in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

As a Delivery Consultant, you will be proficient in leading the architecture of complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current applications, and propose effective migration strategies to AWS. As trusted advisors to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions, you will be responsible for leading the implementation process, ensuring adherence to best practices, optimizing performance, and managing risks throughout the project.

Key job responsibilities

• Designing and implementing complex, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Highly experienced in cloud migration strategies (6Rs) and leading complex migrations, wave planning and utilization of migrating tooling to accelerate customer migrations.
• Conducting discovery and requirements‑gathering sessions with customer stakeholders to understand business drivers, technical constraints, and success criteria, and translating them into actionable architecture recommendations.
• Exerting technical influence across multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness through knowledge sharing and architectural guidance.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Helping customers modernize legacy applications using proven patterns (e.g., .NET Framework → .NET Core, Java EE → Spring Boot, etc).
• Decomposing monoliths into microservices and serverless architectures (Lambda, ECS/EKS, Fargate, Step Functions, EventBridge).
• Database modernization using RDS, Aurora, DMS, and schema conversion tooling.
• Eligibility for UK Government Security Clearance is required for this role (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels).

A day in the life

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

About The Team

We have Diverse Experiences, Inclusive Team Culture, Mentorship & Career Growth, and Work/Life Balance that define our environment.

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture: AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee‑led and company‑sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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Work/Life Balance: We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large‑scale infrastructure.
• 5+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience.
• 2+ years of experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS with a proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, AWS Migration Services etc).
• Experience leading application architecture/design/modernization projects, including cloud‑based solutioning (AWS or equivalent), with AI and automation.
• Experience leveraging agentic coding tools (Kiro, Claude Code, Codex or similar) to accelerate infrastructure automation, code generation, and documentation.
• Experience of large‑scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more of: Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, Go, Ruby, Swift.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Professional level certification.
• Demonstrated migration and modernization strategy development (6Rs) and implementation.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience modernizing complex enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience building sophisticated cloud native applications.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.).
• 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.

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Company - AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Job ID: A10566311