Principal Customer Delivery Architect - Global Financial Services

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: New York
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Principal Customer Delivery Architect - Global Financial Services Job ID: 1315306 - Amazon Web Services, Inc. Are you an IT leader who has led successful business-IT transformation initiatives at a Global Financial Services company? Have you helped financial institutions build new capabilities and drive savings by migrating mission-critical workloads to the Cloud?


Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hiring senior-level Customer Delivery Architects (CDA) in our Global Financial Services Professional Services group.


With a deep understanding of your customer's business, culture, processes, and technology environment, you will guide strategic professional services engagements at your customers to success. Successful candidates will have business development, pre-sales, solutions architecture, and technical program management background, be detail driven, and have experience in managing virtual teams to deliver complex programs. You are a passionate leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, communicate confidently at both the executive and project team level, and collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams, regardless of geographical or organizational boundaries.


The CDA role is customer-facing. CDAs are members of the AWS customer account team, and travel to customer locations is required.


Roles and Responsibilities:
-- In partnership with the Professional Services account manager, formulate and execute strategies to accelerate customer outcomes through AWS Professional Services engagements.
-- Engage with customer business and IT executives to define and execute enterprise-level cloud transformation programs and help create compelling business cases for the transition to the Cloud by identifying motivators and drivers that unlock business value for our customers.
-- Lead pre-sales architectural discussions and design workshops with customers, and understand customer's technical requirements deeply.
-- Develop Professional Services project proposals and SOWs, and work with Professional Services account managers to develop detailed task plans, effort estimates, and delivery timelines.
-- Guide and manage the delivery of strategic professional services engagements.
-- Form strategic relationships with AWS technology and Systems Integrator partners. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS --
-- Technology leadership experience in the financial services industry, or customer-facing technical leadership roles servicing the financial services industry.
-- 10+ years leading teams in infrastructure, database, data warehousing, software development, and enterprise architecture disciplines.
-- 5+ years leading the implementation of enterprise-scale IT programs.
-- Practical knowledge of Agile project management and software development methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe.
-- Broad-based understanding of cloud platform services, cloud-native architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
-- Bachelor's Degree in STEM or equivalent experience.



PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS -- Work experience in Banking, Capital Markets, Payments, Insurance, or other segments within the Financial Services Industry.
-- In-depth knowledge of one or more Financial Services domains such as Payment processing, Core Banking, Core Insurance, Front and Middle Office Trading, Enterprise Risk Management, and Anti Financial Crime.
-- Exposure to Financial Services Governance, Compliance, and Risk management requirements covering security and privacy.
-- One or more certifications in Project Management or Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as SAFE, PRINCE2, or TOGAF.
-- Experience leading cloud migrations and cloud-native software development for mission-critical financial services applications.
-- Experience with mainframe modernization initiatives.

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