Solutions Architect, Amazon

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 2+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Desirable

• The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect team partners with customers to design and build some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. AWS Solutions Architects collaborate with AWS Sales and other AWS teams to help address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services
• Your role as a Solutions Architects helps healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud
• You’ll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through your passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions
• As a trusted customer advocate, you are responsible for guiding organizations in adopting advanced cloud-based solutions and migrating their workloads to the cloud. You'll be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to build mindshare and increase adoption of AWS
• You should be able to interact and communicate effectively with various teams at AWS, including services, marketing, and professional services, while also representing your own team to executive management
• Engaging with executives to define and execute on enterprise cloud strategies
• Defining and executing on the technology strategy by engaging highly technical teams (other Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners)
• Identifying motivators for cloud adoption and unlocking enterprise challenges
• Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility
• Assisting customers by architecting solutions on AWS that leverage cloud best practices
• Soliciting feedback from enterprise customers and influencing future iterations of the AWS platform
• Assisting with cost/benefit modeling and creating compelling business cases/total cost of ownership studies for migration
• Assisting in defining migration roadmaps to AWS and driving buy-in across complex organizational structures
• Engage with executive and technical customers to design AWS-based solutions to business problems
• Understand and be able to explain key aspects of AWS services and how they fit into an overall technical architecture
• Guide customers on deploying infrastructure and applications in a secure, resilient, and scalable way
• Coach and mentor more junior SAs
• The Solutions Architects on our team provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to enterprise Healthcare and Life Sciences customers. They lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solution architect community
• You get to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture. The typical day might include meeting with customers, collaborating with AWS technical product managers, working with others to build and test demonstrations and proofs of concept, and writing technical content such as blog posts and papers