Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect – Migration and Modernization, AGS France Specialists

ID: 7905

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch)

Location: FRA, Lille; FRA, Toulouse; FRA, Bordeaux; FRA, Courbevoie; FRA, Lyon - Toulouse - France

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Job Description

Are you a customer-obsessed Solution Architect with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have a background in Migrating and Modernization on-premise workloads to a cloud hyperscaler, do you also have commercial awareness necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses?

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Senior Solution Architect to join the AWS Global Sales (AGS) Enterprise Applications, Migration and Modernisation team as Infrastructure Migration and Modernization Specialist Solutions Architect. This role will focus on our French region which is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS). SMGS is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

As an Infrastructure Migration and Modernization Solutions Architect, you will help drive solutions for our customers who are aiming to migrate their workloads typically residing on VMware on premise solutions to AWS native technologies via our many VMware migration pathways. You will also have a good understanding of Microsoft technologies including .NET frameworks with a view to modernize .NET, additionally other workload knowledge is important including Linux and Container solutions.

Key job responsibilities
• Work alongside your aligned business development manager in order to provide business support, develop go-to-market motions and scaling mechanisms within the France region.
• Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and France teams to bring customer feedback to product teams.
• Provide specialist technical knowledge to your aligned specialist teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
• Collaborate with Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) teams to provide technical insights into GTM strategy and support field marketing to execute local technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements.
• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent
• Create internal field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to migrate VMware on premise datacenters to AWS migration pathways.
• Become an active member and contributor to the AWS Technical Field Community (TFC) within your specialist domain.

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Basic Qualifications

- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
- Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises.
- Experience with VMware or similar datacenter hypervisor solutions
- Experience migrating and transforming Microsoft workloads to the cloud

Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of x86 based applications and infrastructure
- 6+ years management of technical, customer facing people
- AWS Industry certifications such as - VMware VCP/VCAP, Microsoft Azure Certifications, AWS Solution Architect

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Company Information

Company Name: AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch)

Company Website: https://aws.amazon.com

Company Address: 31 Place des Corolles, 92400 Courbevoie, France

AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch) is the France-registered branch of AWS EMEA SARL, the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) subsidiary of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is the cloud computing division of Amazon.com, Inc., and AWS EMEA SARL functions as the regional legal entity that provides AWS cloud products and services across the EMEA market. The France Branch represents the local operational presence of that EMEA legal entity within France, enabling commercial contracting, local customer support, compliance with French regulatory and tax requirements, and engagement with public- and private-sector organisations in the French market. Company overview AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch) operates as part of the broader Amazon Web Services organization, which publicly characterises itself as a provider of on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies and governments. AWS’s public materials describe the company as offering a broad, evolving portfolio of cloud-based infrastructure and application services that customers use to build sophisticated, scalable applications. The France Branch allows AWS to serve French customers from a local legal entity, facilitate billing and contracting in local currency and law, and provide a local point of contact for sales, account management, partner engagement and customer support. Core business activities The primary activities of AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch) mirror those of AWS globally and focus on the sale, delivery and support of cloud computing services. Core activities include: marketing and commercial sales of cloud infrastructure and platform services to enterprise, startup, public sector and non‑profit customers in France; provision of technical and account support via local teams and AWS support channels; enabling local compliance and data residency options by leveraging AWS’s global and regional infrastructure (including the AWS Europe/Paris region); collaborating with local channel partners, system integrators and the AWS Partner Network (APN); and offering training, certification and professional services either directly or through accredited partners. Main products and services AWS’s catalog comprises hundreds of discrete services; the France Branch markets and supports the principal AWS service families to French customers. Key offerings include: - Compute: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual servers, AWS Lambda for serverless compute, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for container orchestration. - Storage and content delivery: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for object storage, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for block storage, Amazon S3 Glacier for long-term archival, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery network (CDN) services. - Database and analytics: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Aurora for managed relational databases, Amazon DynamoDB for managed NoSQL, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and a suite of analytics services including Amazon EMR and AWS Glue. - Networking and edge services: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Route 53 for DNS, AWS Direct Connect for dedicated network connections, and edge networking via CloudFront and the AWS global network. - Security, identity and compliance: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Shield and AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), as well as compliance and governance tools such as AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail. - Machine learning and AI: Amazon SageMaker for building, training and deploying ML models, plus purpose-built AI services for speech, vision, language and personalization. - Developer, management and deployment tools: AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and a broad set of developer tools and SDKs. These services are delivered from AWS’s global backbone of data centers and from AWS Regions and Availability Zones, including European regions such as EU (Paris). The France Branch supports French customers in selecting appropriate regional deployment and data residency options. Local and regulatory engagement The France Branch also plays a role in AWS’s local engagement with French regulatory, compliance and public-sector frameworks. AWS publicly documents compliance certifications and frameworks for its services (for example ISO standards and regional compliance attestations), and the local branch supports customers’ needs for assurance, data protection, and contractual commitments consistent with French and EU law. AWS provides dedicated offerings and guidance for public sector, healthcare, financial services and other regulated industries. Partner ecosystem, training and support AWS emphasises a partner-led approach in markets worldwide. The France Branch works with the AWS Partner Network (APN), independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators and managed service providers to deliver consulting, migration, managed services and industry solutions. AWS also provides training and certification programs (AWS Training & Certification) and online resources to help customers and partners develop cloud skills locally. Customers and use cases AWS’s public communications and case studies highlight usage across a wide variety of sectors—enterprise IT modernisation, startups, digital media and entertainment, e‑commerce, financial services, public sector services and scientific research—demonstrating broad applicability of AWS services. The France Branch’s role is to engage directly with French organisations adopting AWS technologies, including supporting migrations, digital transformation projects, and cloud-native application development. In summary, AWS EMEA SARL (France Branch) is the local French branch of the AWS EMEA legal entity that enables delivery, contracting and local support of Amazon Web Services’ comprehensive cloud computing portfolio to customers in France. It provides commercial, technical and compliance-related capabilities to help organisations in France adopt AWS infrastructure and platform services, while leveraging AWS’s global service catalogue, regional data centres and partner ecosystem.

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