Sr. PARTNER SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

• 7+ years of experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of large-scale Mainframe migration solutions.
• 7+ years of experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Java, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM.
• 5+ years of experience migrating workloads from mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems to distributed x86 infrastructures on-premises or in the Cloud.
• 5+ years of experience integrating mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems with distributed Linux-based or Windows-based x86 servers.
• The successful candidate will have spent several years of their career in customer facing roles and a proven record of effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations.
• BA/BS degree is desired; Information Technology, Computer Science or Technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must. Past experience writing and publishing technical whitepapers desirable.

Do you like helping partners solve tough technical problems? Would you like to help leading Systems Integrators and ISVs utilize cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping companies understand application architectures and integration approaches? Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services as the leading cloud computing platform?

As a Mainframe Solution Architect focused on ISV and SIs within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS) as well as the specific mainframe migration and modernization tools across the partner community. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement with strategic mainframe partners.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in mainframes, mainframe migration tools, mainframe modernization approaches as well as customer facing skills at all levels of a partner organization. The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:
As a strategic member of the AWS Partner Migration Solution Architecture team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our systems integrators and ISVs for mainframes. This includes:

• Serve as a key member of the AWS Partner Team in helping to drive overall AWS mainframe technical strategy.
• Enable and align consulting partners with AWS mainframe modernization approach and methodology.
• Lead technology partners to create new mainframe technical solutions or optimize solutions for AWS.
• Create joint offerings which can include AWS services, ProServe, consulting partners, technology partners in order to deliver higher value propositions to customers with mainframes.
• Advise customers and commercial sales teams on the AWS mainframe modernization approach, the value of partners, engagement, and recommend qualified partners to support customer needs.
• Showcase customer success from mainframe projects with partner case studies and thought leadership.
• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful partner engagements worldwide.
• Assist solution providers with the definition of technical strategies that will enable them to sell more of their offering on the AWS platform.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge with our broader Solution Architect community.
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS.
• Technical content composition and delivery: blogs, whitepapers, technical presentations at worldwide major conferences.
• Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating on premises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
• 5+ Experience architecting highly available, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling and high availability.
• Experience of using IBM mainframe and ISV tools for maintaining online or batch applications.
• Experience working on pre-sales initiatives such as RFP, RFI’s etc. for mainframe modernization projects.
• Understanding large IT budgets, complex vendor relationships, and working with diverse teams to justify cloud migrations.
• Depth in various migration techniques such as rehost, refactor, re-architect, replatform, repurchase, etc.
• Master’s degree in a technical discipline.