AWS Architect/Project Manager

Job Description -

My notes: client is a retail company, with 8K plus employees.

My notes (JD to follow):

Industry: Retail, so AWS PM with retail migration hands-on experience will take top choice.

Communication and personality and strong Presence is a must.

This is a high-visibility role, lots of meetings with: Business suite, shareholders, IT management, and managing an IT team.

Will need to PM/Architect the roadmap, liaison, etc.

They want to migrate to AWS cloud

This is for a single PM AWS advisor, who will have access to our customers bench of AWS folks.

Initially for 30-35-40 hours a week.

Interviews are all via MS Teams

25 TB of data

15 Sharepoint portals

Customer wants to go from legacy (Delphi), along with newer integrations to AWS cloud.

So, its: on-prem plus Azure to AWS

AWS Architect/Project Manager

Hybrid 3-4 days each week onsite (may have some more remote days as this rolls out, depends on the consultant)

Location is Downtown Chicago, IL

Start is mid-November, but can be as soon as two-weeks from offer

Duration is six months, to start

Update 3: we need AWS-heavy PM s that have actual hands-on experience managing projects, migrating from an archaic legacy system to AWS. Their CV s should reflect this, in depth.

Update 2: this person needs to be in greater Chicago, Illinois, as this is hybrid onsite.

Update 1: this will be an AWS Architect that has become the AWS PM for the past 3-4 years.

The JD

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience with analytics and reporting system in Azure / AWS

Can manage project in Agile methodology

The usual Sr PM skills (excellent soft skills, strong team leadership, comfortable and effective reporting upwards, drives for solutions and delivery).

Responsibilities:

Be the subject matter expert (SME) of multiple agile software development lines and the associated platform.

Help application product teams bring their latest ideas to the field faster and provide the fault tolerant and highly scalable core of our customers platform as a service for internal users

Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.

Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.

Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

Required Skills/Experience:

12+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.

10+ year of experience in software management, engineering, or design

Well versed in building product-quality software on AWS including experience in designing for high availability, building multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.

Familiar with various application stacks such as .NET, C#, Powershell etc in a Visual Studio TFS/VSO environment.

Configuration and deployment experience in two or more of the following:

• AWS PaaS technologies (Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and API Gateway)
• AWS apps technologies
• Azure IaaS Technologies
• Deployed applications with Web UI frontends
• Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces

Expert level knowledge regarding AWS IaaS services (i.e., Compute, networking, databases, storage, backup and archive, DR, security, monitoring, etc.)

Strong expertise in AWS Security & Identity services (i.e. Active Directory, Domain Services, Security Center, Governance,)

Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Federated AD, AD integration

Powershell deployments, experience with Powershell, DevOps CI/CD Pipelines

Familiarity with Office 365 and Sharepoint service offerings.

Experience as a hands-on technical practitioner/specialist in client facing roles in large enterprises and demonstrated client facing consulting skills, including building strong client relationships.

Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.

Strong team building and management skills including: the ability to lead distributed teams and play the liaison.

AWS certification in any of the following:

• Solutions Architect
• Infrastructure Architect
• Systems Ops.

For quick interview and submission, please email me ALL of the following details:

1. First and Last name as it appears on your passport:
2. Anything we should know about you for presentation (this is our chance to showcase why this consultant is amazing compared to their competition):
3. Reason you are looking for a change (detailed explanation):
4. Communication skills/C-Level interaction (1-10):
5. Leadership skills/presence (1-10):
6. Hourly rate, all-inclusive (1099 or C2C only at this time):
7. US Work Status:
8. Resume in MS Word:
9. Education and pertinent certs - degree, year, university:
10. Availability to start (hybrid onsite):
11. Email and phone number:
12. LinkedIn Profile (must have pic):
13. Are you TEAMS/video interview ready (Y/N):
14. Current location (city & state):