Consulting Principal Lead(Cloud Migration Services)

Who are we?

Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $5.00 billion in fiscal 2024. For more information, visit www.amdocs.com 

At Amdocs, our mission is to empower our employees to 'Live Amazing, Do Amazing' every day. We believe in creating a workplace where you not only excel professionally but also thrive personally. Through our culture of making a real impact, fostering growth, embracing flexibility, and building connections, we enable them to live meaningful lives while making a difference in the world.

In one sentence

As the Cloud Migration Services Practice Lead, you own the end-to-end cloud migration strategy, technical leadership, and execution for the organization’s clients. You will define and evolve the migration frameworks, methodologies, tools, and best practices that all Cloud Migration squads leverage for successful delivery. Your leadership ensures migrations are efficient, secure, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes.

You will lead a specialized team of Cloud Migration Engineers and provide thought leadership and hands-on guidance to cross-functional teams. Your goal is to make cloud migrations repeatable, reliable, cost-effective, and value-driven for diverse enterprise environments.

What will your job look like?

Key Responsibilities

Strategy, Architecture & Assets

•Own the overall cloud migration strategy and reference implementation for the practice (framework v1/v2 roadmap).

•Define the core building blocks: migration assessment templates, automation tools, migration runbooks, and validation checklists.

•Establish standards, guidelines, and review processes for how migrations are planned, executed, validated, and optimized.

•Shape the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy: platform selection, migration patterns (lift-and-shift, re-platform, re-architect), and abstraction boundaries.

•Create and maintain reusable assets, tools, accelerators, and reference architectures to drive consistency and efficiency across migration projects.

•Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives, articulating migration strategies, value propositions, and technical roadmaps.

•Provide advice on the latest market trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud migration and modernization.

All you need is...

Key Responsibilities

Strategy, Architecture & Assets

•Own the overall cloud migration strategy and reference implementation for the practice (framework v1/v2 roadmap).

•Define the core building blocks: migration assessment templates, automation tools, migration runbooks, and validation checklists.

•Establish standards, guidelines, and review processes for how migrations are planned, executed, validated, and optimized.

•Shape the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy: platform selection, migration patterns (lift-and-shift, re-platform, re-architect), and abstraction boundaries.

•Create and maintain reusable assets, tools, accelerators, and reference architectures to drive consistency and efficiency across migration projects.

•Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives, articulating migration strategies, value propositions, and technical roadmaps.

•Provide advice on the latest market trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud migration and modernization.

Migration Execution & Enablement

•Design and oversee multi-phase migration workflows (discovery, assessment, planning, execution, validation, cutover, optimization).

•Build and maintain a Migration Toolkit and automation scripts that squads can easily adopt.

•Define patterns for hosting, scaling, and optimizing workloads post-migration (Kubernetes/OpenShift, serverless, autoscaling, cost management).

•Ensure migrations include observability by design: monitoring, logging, and reporting for each migration phase.

•Participate in RFPs, proposal building, and solutioning for new business opportunities, providing high-end cloud consulting and technical leadership throughout the sales cycle.

Risk, Compliance & Quality

•Define the strategy for risk assessment and mitigation, including compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

•Standardize validation schemas and rollback patterns to ensure safe and effective migrations.

Cross-Team Leadership & Collaboration

•Develop and deliver presentations and technical briefings to customer executives, articulating migration strategies, value propositions, and technical roadmaps.

•Provide advice on the latest market trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud migration and modernization

Migration Execution & Enablement

•Design and oversee multi-phase migration workflows (discovery, assessment, planning, execution, validation, cutover, optimization).

•Build and maintain a Migration Toolkit and automation scripts that squads can easily adopt.

•Define patterns for hosting, scaling, and optimizing workloads post-migration (Kubernetes/OpenShift, serverless, autoscaling, cost management).

•Ensure migrations include observability by design: monitoring, logging, and reporting for each migration phase.

•Participate in RFPs, proposal building, and solutioning for new business opportunities, providing high-end cloud consulting and technical leadership throughout the sales cycle.

Leadership & Consulting

•Proven track record leading small, senior technical teams in a services or platform context.

•Comfortable influencing architecture and execution across multiple squads/tribes, even without direct reporting lines.

•Strong storytelling and communication skills; able to explain complex migration strategies in clear, non-buzzword-heavy language.

•Experience in consulting, professional services, or customer-facing technical roles is a strong plus.

•Demonstrated ability to engage with customer executives, participate in RFPs, and build compelling proposals for cloud migration services.

Why you will love this job:

• You will be challenged to strategize, direct and build a high performance organization; have the opportunity to use your forward-thinking and critical thinking to carry out regional responsibility or global responsibility based on your job; coordinate driving penetration into the existing and new opportunities and accounts to grow the overall business.
• We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, and parental leave!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.