Job summary
Would you like to help our telco customers leverage their vast data and deliver breakthrough experiences for their end customers? Would you like to pioneer the use of 5G and big data in the cloud as a means to help drive innovation and digital transformation? Would you like to enable some of the largest telcos in the world transform how they use data for predicting customer needs and preventing inefficiencies? Have you been a part of creating and delivering digital and analytics strategies for major telcos?

Telco Professional Services is looking for an experienced D&A Strategist to guide AWS customers in accelerating their journey using Data, Analytics, and AI. The D&A Strategy Consultant becomes a trusted advisor to our customers and shapes high impact digital projects, provides guidance on how to enable teams to use data effectively, maintain appropriate enterprise governance, understands the requirements of data science teams, and creates alignment among customer’s stakeholders to address resistance to change and provide a clear, executable vision for transition to cloud computing model. The strategist operates effectively at multiple levels of the organization and can address concerns from senior executives, data science practitioners, and established platform teams.

A Principal Telco Data and Analytics Strategy Consultant provides guidelines on performance, scalability, management, and serviceability of products through assembling, creating and sharing effective content and best practices. As part of this team, the data and analytics strategist will work closely with colleagues in Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G/NFV teams to define and provide comprehensive data-enabled solutions. Our team collaborates closely with Account Managers, Specialist Sales, Solutions Architects, Training and Service teams to drive sales opportunities.

This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations to deliver professional services when needed.

Responsibilities include:

• Engaging deeply with C-level executives to define and execute Enterprise-wide Data & AI Strategy programs, often becoming the “trusted advisor” on D&A strategy related topics.
• Providing tailored advice and best practices to help customers implement mission-critical reforms and advances in analytics roadmap execution, such as large-scale data lakes, machine learning capabilities, IoT, data warehousing, data governance, data security, and data access across the Organization
• Liaising with data management advisory council to provide guidelines and recommendations on business requirements, practice, and compliance to ensure organization business strategy, regulatory compliance, and continuity requirements are met.
• Leading customer conversations and architectural teams to define modern data architecture and developing policies and practices to guide data collection, management, analysis, modeling, and reporting.
• Guiding data governance frameworks supporting the consistent use of cloud technologies aligned to institutional data and analytics strategies, and associated policies / procedure.
• Advising on organizational changes that support digital transformation and enabling the People change critical to sustained business performance: skills, capabilities, and organizational design.
• Creating awareness of various data related compliance/regulations and ensuring that consistent compliance with policies, standards and tools is consistently enforced, e.g. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), GDPR, CCAR, BCBS239, KYC, etc.
• Selling and delivering billable professional services and providing oversight on engagements, defining scope and execution approach, building teams and consensus; getting things done through others not directly under his or her supervision; and working ethically and with integrity.
• Training and enabling others in Professional Services to provide data and innovation guidance to customers and effectively position analytics engagements.
• Collaborating with other ProServe specialty teams to drive and shape data management and analytics solutions to accelerate our customer’s business outcomes, e.g. security, advisory teams, etc.
• Providing customer and market feedback to service teams for innovation and feature improvements.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organization—leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.


Key job responsibilities

• Researching and analyzing customer and market trends around Data, Analytics, and AI to inform GTM strategy, solution development, and delivery.
• Evangelizing leading practices in data management and governance to internal and external constituents.
• Collaborating with various ProServe practices and partners to deliver a clear, compelling, and actionable data-driven growth strategy.
• Radiating Amazon's leadership principles by working backwards from our customers' needs.

About the team
The Data-driven Telco team with AWS Professional Service's Global Telco Practice is small team of strategists, consultants, and builders who are customer obsessed and lead with data-driven insights. We help our Telco customers use data to answer their highest value questions around Customer, Network, Operations, and Product driven growth.

• Masters in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Math, or applicable field or MBA
• Experience on creating and executing organizational change management strategies as part of a larger transformation
• Program/Product Management experience, including planning and execution oversight, prioritization, successful project completion in a timely manner; and maintaining a focus on high standards and quality
• Ability to train clients, team members, and partners in building data-driven solutions and use cases using a Product Management methodology.
• Hands-on experience in running customer workshops and other collaboration sessions to discover customer priorities, understand current state, and determine maturity/readiness to execute on enterprise D&A vision.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $182,800 - $247,300 per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

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Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workers in New York City who perform in-person work or interact with the public in the course of business must show proof they have been fully vaccinated against COVID or request and receive approval for a reasonable accommodation, including medical or religious accommodation.