Senior Delivery Consultant - Migrations, AWS Professional Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Delivery Consultant for its ProServe team. You will work with customers to design, implement, and manage AWS solutions aligned to business goals, driving success across the cloud journey.

You will lead portfolio assessments, dependency mapping, and wave planning, collaborating with Security, Networking, and Replatform teams to unblock migration paths. Travel up to 50% may be required.

Qualifications

• English language communication skills (written and verbal).
• 7+ years of external or internal customer-facing, complex and large-scale project delivery experience in migration programmes.
• Experience leading large-scale data centre exit programmes or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
• Experience with portfolio assessment and application disposition on large VMware estates (1,000+ servers).
• Experience with application discovery and dependency mapping tools (e.g., ModelizeIT, AWS Application Discovery Service, or equivalent).
• Experience with wave planning: dependency grouping, capacity balancing, and multi-geography coordination under regulatory constraints.

Responsibilities

• Own Portfolio Assessment for assigned estates and score apps across technical dimensions.
• Apply the migration decision tree to assign R-strategies and document rationale.
• Build and maintain dependency maps and resolve data conflicts.
• Design wave plans grouping applications by dependency and capacity across geographies.
• Run Tech Bridge sessions to validate decisions and unblock migrations.
• Feed wave planning into AWS Transform for factory execution readiness.
• Identify and escalate risks to wave timelines and drive mitigations.
• Collaborate with Security, Networking, and Replatform teams to address dependencies.

Skills

English comms

7+ yrs delivery

Large-scale migration

Data centre exit

App discovery tools

Wave planning

VMware estates

Tools

RVTools

vCenter

ESXi clusters

ModelizeIT

AWS Transform

Migration Hub

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Description

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) 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, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Description

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) 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, implement, and manage AWS solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their cloud journey, providing technical expertise and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Key job responsibilities

• Own Portfolio Assessment for assigned application estates (1,000+ servers), scoring apps across dimensions from Technical Designs and CMDB data
• Apply the migration decision tree to assign R-strategies (Rehost/Replatform/Refactor/Retire/Retain/Relocate) and document rationale in Architecture Decision Records
• Build and maintain dependency maps using applications, resolving conflicting data between tooling output and application owner interviews
• Design wave plans: group applications by dependency, balance capacity, respect regulatory frozen zones, and coordinate across geographies
• Run Tech Bridge sessions with customer application owners to validate disposition decisions and unblock migration paths
• Feed wave planning into AWS Transform, ensuring move groups are sized, sequenced, and ready for factory execution
• Proactively identify and escalation risks to wave timelines — then propose and drive mitigations before they become blockers
• Collaborate with Security, Networking, and Replatform teams to ensure cross-cutting dependencies are addressed in wave sequencing

About The Team

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The position may require up to 50% travel to customer sites.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• 7+ years of external or internal customer-facing, complex and large-scale project delivery experience in migration programmes
• Experience leading large-scale data centre exit programmes or recent hands‑on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
• Experience with portfolio assessment and application disposition on large VMware estates (1,000+ servers)
• Experience with application discovery and dependency mapping tools (e.g., ModelizeIT, AWS Application Discovery Service, or equivalent)
• Experience with wave planning: dependency grouping, capacity balancing, and multi-geography coordination under regulatory constraints

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience in financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or other segments)
• AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in AWS migration services (e.g., MGN, DMS, AWS Transform, Migration Hub)
• Hands‑on experience with VMware infrastructure discovery tools (RVTools, vCenter, ESXi clusters)
• Knowledge of database migration considerations (Oracle licensing, EC2 vs RDS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
• Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python, PowerShell)
• Comfortable operating in complex, multi-vendor environments with incomplete documentation and conflicting data sources
• Able to engage with application owners, infrastructure teams, and cross-functional workstreams (Security, Networking, Replatform) to validate dependencies and unblock migration paths
• Multi-cloud experience
• GenAI tooling experience for delivery acceleration (e.g., Amazon Q, Kiro)

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Company

- AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Job ID: A10593434