Solution Architect – Migration & Modernization

Job Description:

Must have a passion for creating software that matters and working in a balanced product team approach. Comfortable working side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver working software to clients and their users. Must understand agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we're doing right so we can improve on it. Above everything, judge your success by the success of your team and happiness of our customers.

Major Responsibilities
• Migration and Modernization of servers and applications to Azure / AWS / GCP
• Excellent understanding of core Azure, AWS or GCP services, uses, and basic architecture best practices
• Ability to evaluate cloud migration and modernization requirements and make recommendations/support for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Assist in the areas of product planning, competitive analysis and thought leadership to deliver our Azure, AWS or GCP cloud migration and modernization services.
• Participate in requirements gathering, maintaining a prioritized product backlog, organize Agile software sprints with the Product Owner.
• Understand and stay current with industry trends, open source technologies, and updates to Azure, AWS or GCP services that can be leveraged by our cloud services.
• Research competitor’s Azure, AWS or GCP migration and modernization services, assess competitive advantages and determine what product features and functionality will be built or modified
• Develop/update collateral pertaining to Azure, AWS or GCP migrations and modernizations for Sales, Solutioning & Delivery
• Work closely with solutioning & development teams from product initiation to delivery and product lifecycle management.
• Lead the development of technical collateral such as knowledge base articles, product sheets, white papers, and product announcements for our Azure, AWS or GCP migration and modernization services
• Assist in providing training to sales, solution, and delivery teams
• Ensures the Azure, AWS or GCP migration and modernization offerings within DXC are delivered rapidly to market, and stay current with customer needs, technology advancements, and competitive differentiation.
• Responsible for collecting several metrics relevant for the Azure, AWS or GCP product offering.
• Engage the Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP and DXC community through social media, blog posts, and conferences
• Actively seek feedback on DXC's Azure / AWS / GCP migration and modernization services from customers (internal and external) and use that feedback to inform product decisions

Key Skills:
• AWS, Azure or GCP certified Solutions Architect
• Experience with both lean startup methodologies and agile development methodologies
• Experience working directly with clients and leading projects
• Experience shipping both new products as well as improving upon existing ones
• Experience leading or supporting user research
• Experience mentoring other PMs a plus
• Experience working with or inside enterprise scale organizations a plus