Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical breadth/depth and strong interpersonal skills
• The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record to connect technology to measurable business value. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges
• Enjoy working with large, global customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers
• Have a strong understanding of large-scale accelerated computing solutions
• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
• Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying

Desirable

• As a Solutions Architect, you will partner some of the world’s leading AI model providers companies, AWS Sales, and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services
• As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud
• You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS from startups to enterprise customers
• As a key member of the account team, partner with customers to ensure their long-term success by helping them harness the power of AWS services to accelerate their business
• Formulate and execute a cloud adoption strategy that delights our customers and builds strong relationships that lead to strategic revenue streams that exceed AWS objectives
• Become a trusted advisor by gaining deep knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and best practices, and sharing that knowledge with clients, other SAs and the wider AWS builder community
• Act as the voice of the customer for AWS service teams to enhance the AWS platform
• Work with other SAs to develop reusable solutions to common business and architectural problems
• Educate customers by leading workshops and hands-on classes to demonstrate how to use AWS services
• Network and build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customer organizations to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blog posts and open source projects, and speak at public events
• Help hire, on-board and train new SAs via mentorship and builder programs