Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

• Experience in a customer-facing technology or engineering role
• Experience in or with telecommunications service providers, network equipment manufacturers, or related telecom ecosystem partners
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or math

Desirable

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a technical leader to help global telecommunications service providers and partners transform their businesses with AWS technology
• The problem domains are diverse: 5G monetization, network function virtualization, digital customer journeys, OSS/BSS transformation, mobile edge computing, hyperscale data, cybersecurity, and supply chain logistics
• At your disposal is the breadth of AWS, including artificial intelligence, edge computing, IoT, and data analytics
• As part of the Telecommunications Solutions Architecture team, you will collaborate with customers, internal AWS teams, and AWS partners to deliver solutions to the unique challenges of information and operational technology in telecom customers
• You will be the single-threaded owner of the AWS technology strategy for your customer and account team to drive AWS adoption
• The ability to connect technology with measurable business value while assessing risks, balancing trade-offs, and encouraging risk-tasking to maximize your customer's business value of AWS is critical to a solutions architect
• You should also have a demonstrated ability to think long-term about business, product, and technical outcomes
• Our team is small and motivated
• We come from diverse backgrounds, but what we all have in common is a huge curiosity, a passion for delighting our customers, and a desire to deliver technology that transforms their business
• Our team experiences high levels of collaboration, lots of multi-tasking, and often course corrections or new ideas that mean adaptability is key
• We find creative and scalable solutions to our customers’ difficult problems, and we own delivering those outcomes to the customer
• We are also a geographically-distributed team, which means you will need to possess a high bias for taking action without immediate team consensus
• Role requires domestic and international (mainly Europe) travel up to 30%
• As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will have ownership of the technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures
• Internally, you will be an advocate acting on behalf of the customer to help drive continual improvements to the AWS platform, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and services
• You will also help shape the future of the Solutions Architecture organisation by helping to hire, coach and mentor others
• In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures with the worldwide AWS Solutions Architect community
• You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelise and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences)
• If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible, while inspiring the impossible, come build the future with us