AWS Practice Lead

Job Description

Capgemini is seeking a Director level Executive for AWS Practice Lead.

This person should have:

• 15+ years of experience with at least 10 in Data and Analytics Domain of which minimum 3 years on big data and Cloud
• Multi-skilled professional with strong experience in Architecture and Advisory, Offer and Asset creation, People hiring and training.
• Experience on at least 3 sizeable AWS engagements spanning over 18 months as a Managing Architect / Advisor preferably both migration and cloud native implementations.
• Hands-on experience on at least 4 native services like EMR, S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Sagemaker, Quicksight, Athena, Kinesis.
• Client facing with strong communication and articulation skills. Should be able engage with CXO level audiences.
• Must be hands-on in writing solutions, doing estimations in support of RFPs.
• Strong in Data Architecture and management – DW, Data Lake, Data Governance, MDM.
• Able to translate business and technical requirements into Architectural components

Nice to have:

• Multi-skilled professional with strong experience in Deal solutioning, Creating GTM strategy, Delivery handholding
• Must be aware of relevant leading tools and concepts in industry
• Must be flexible for short-term travel up to 3 months across countries
• Must be able to define new service offerings and support GTM strategy
• Must have exposure to initial setup of activities, including infrastructure setup like connectivity, security policies, configuration management, Devops etc.
• Architecture certification preferred - TOGAF or other Industry acknowledges
• Experience with replication, high availability, archiving, backup & restore, and disaster recovery/business continuity data best practices.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Strong Behavioral & Collaboration Skills 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  
• Should be and good listener, logical and composed in explaining point of views. 
• Ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional, and multi-cultural teams.
• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to generate stakeholder buy-in and lead through influence at a senior management level. Should be very good in negotiation skills and ability to handle conflict situations.