Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• 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
• 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
• The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer
• You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions

Desirable

• AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to join SMGS
• 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 in your defined country
• 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
• You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS
• 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 whitepapers
• 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