Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon
$146.2-284.3k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$146.2-284.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience in specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
- 10+ years experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field of study or 12+ years of related work experience
Desirable
- Professional experience architecting and operating cloud-based solutions
- Practical experience architecting and operating silicon design computing environments, semiconductor manufacturing OT/IT, or HPC IT infrastructure
- Familiarity with Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and the semiconductor design process
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with C-Suite, line of business executives, IT management, and developers
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
What the job involves
- As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Principal Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers to design and build 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
- You’ll help drive successful business outcomes through your passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions
- You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS
- You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management
- Ensure customer success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform
- Lead deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Be an AWS evangelist. Educate all levels of the organization within your customer on the value proposition of AWS
- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, and proof of concepts
- In partnership with the sales team, formulate, and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
- Build deep relationships with the C-suite and senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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