Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

• At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”
• In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun
• You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact
• Enjoy working with large, global customers as an active contributor to a diverse team
• 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 computing solutions
• You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions
• You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
• Knowledge of cloud architecture

Desirable

• As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect in AWS Industries Healthcare and Life Sciences segment, you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services to help drive forward the pharmaceutical industry
• You have technical depth, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging and influence Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VP’s and CXOs
• You will partner some of the worlds largest companies, to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services
• In collaboration with account managers, you will assist in driving growth across a small set of global customers
• 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 mind-share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers
• The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect
• You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges
• Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
• In partnership with the account management team, formulate and execute a strategy
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support