Solutions Architect, Amazon

• To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and cloud architectures
• You are a builder with genuine curiosity about how technology can support your customers’ business models and objectives
• You are a lifetime learner that develops areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes
• You are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, where you will be positively challenged and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture
• Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent) and/or relevant tech experience
• Experience of Software, Systems or Data Design
• Fluency in French and English

Desirable

• Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud
• They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with startups of different stages
• Supporting the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, they work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology
• Solutions Architects also have broader impact at scale, taking a supporting role in creating and presenting technical contents and best practices
• In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible
• You will have the opportunity to produce cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases
• You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth
• Every day you will be learning something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments
• You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving adoption of AWS technologies while bringing differentiated value to customers
• As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes
• You operate as a trusted advisor for startups
• The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide
• You work backwards from their priorities and find inventive ways to add value with solutions utilizing AWS and its Partners’ technology
• You capture and share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for AWS
• You use your customer understanding to participate the creation or updates of technical content and reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts)
• Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences)
• The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies
• In a typical week, you will meet multiple customers and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions
• You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS
• Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you’ll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers’ business problems
• As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily