Do you like helping large enterprise customers solve technical problems? Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have a knack for helping an organization understand application architectures and integration approaches, and the consultative and leadership skills to help guide a project to success? Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to move a large enterprise onto Amazon Web Services as their technology platform?
Come join the team as a Solutions Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS). In your role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (Amazon EC2 compute, Amazon S3 storage, Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, Amazon CloudFront CDN, etc.) within large strategic accounts. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, working cross-organizationally to facilitate widespread use and adoption of the AWS platform, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
Roles & Responsibilities:
* Serve as a key member of the Business Development and Sales team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
* Scope each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
* Own each engagement, and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value.
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the solution architect community.
* Understand and exploit the use of salesforce.com and other internal Amazon systems.
* Technical degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience.
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* 8+ years experience in developing technology solutions, including but not limited to: operations/engineering, networking engineering, infrastructure/database architecture, and/or applications development.
* Broad technology experience across at least 2-3 of these areas including: cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation.
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* Experience architecting/designing solutions built on cloud ideal but not required (AWS, Azure, GCP).
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* Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
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* Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and technical teams.
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* Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations.
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* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
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* Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role.
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* Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
