AWS Professional Services is seeking a Strategic Modernisation Consultant to lead a landmark Agentic AI-powered application modernisation program for one of Australia's largest mining and resources companies. This is a Perth-based engagement to modernise a complex, business-critical legacy platform using generative & agentic AI tooling, domain-driven decomposition, and cloud-native architecture patterns — compressing what would traditionally be a multi-year modernisation effort into an accelerated timeline. The program has already delivered significant value in its first year, validating the approach through working prototypes and measurable business outcomes.
You will be the senior technical and consulting leader for the engagement, responsible for modernisation strategy, executive stakeholder management, multi-partner delivery orchestration, and value realisation. You will lead a cross-functional team of 14+ engineers and architects across three parallel delivery squads, working alongside a global management consulting partner and the customer's internal technology teams.
Key job responsibilities Strategic Leadership
Own the end-to-end modernisation strategy — from GenAI tooling productionisation through domain decomposition to legacy system retirement Define and sequence modernisation waves, balancing technical risk, business impact, and resource constraints Shape program commercial structure, including resource mix, investment trade-offs, and statement of work design Translate technical progress into business value language for executive and Board-level audiences
Executive Engagement Operate as a trusted advisor to the customer's CDIO and senior technology leadership at peer level Partner with delivery partners, including global management consulting leaders, maintaining accountability for technical outcomes within a joint delivery model Present to and influence C-suite and Board-level stakeholders on modernisation progress, risks, and strategic decisions Engage with AWS senior leadership on program strategy, escalations, and resource commitments
Technical Leadership Lead the transition of validated GenAI prototypes from minimum lovable product to production Define future-state domain architecture for a large-scale legacy platform with 1,000+ integrated assets Provide architectural oversight across multiple delivery squads, ensuring consistency, quality, and operational readiness Drive modernisation planning including dependency management, risk mitigation, and integration with enterprise platforms
Team and Capability Building Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers, architects, and specialists Build modernisation capability within the customer's technology teams — the goal is customer self-sufficiency by program end Orchestrate multi-partner delivery
Key job responsibilities Strategic Leadership Own the end-to-end modernisation strategy — from GenAI tooling productionisation through domain decomposition to legacy system retirement Define and sequence modernisation waves, balancing technical risk, business impact, and resource constraints Shape program commercial structure, including resource mix, investment trade-offs, and statement of work design Translate technical progress into business value language for executive and Board-level audiences
Executive Engagement Operate as a trusted advisor to the customer's CDIO and senior technology leadership at peer level Partner with delivery partners, including global management consulting leaders, maintaining accountability for technical outcomes within a joint delivery model Present to and influence C-suite and Board-level stakeholders on modernisation progress, risks, and strategic decisions Engage with AWS senior leadership on program strategy, escalations, and resource commitments
Technical Leadership Lead the transition of validated GenAI prototypes from minimum lovable product to production Define future-state domain architecture for a large-scale legacy platform with 1,000+ integrated assets Provide architectural oversight across multiple delivery squads, ensuring consistency, quality, and operational readiness Drive modernisation planning including dependency management, risk mitigation, and integration with enterprise platforms
Team and Capability Building Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers, architects, and specialists Build modernisation capability within the customer's technology teams — the goal is customer self-sufficiency by program end Orchestrate multi-partner delivery
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Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
- Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
- Experience with software development life cycle (sdlc) and agile/iterative methodologies
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience managing executive customer relationships and key business stakeholders
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (like TOGAF, Zachman) and identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets
- Experience with enterprise systems including SAP, Oracle, and custom applications
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