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
• 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Desirable

• Work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey
• Drive customer engagements to help customers maximize the benefits of the cloud through application modernization
• Be effective at working with customer and partner leadership to qualify, develop, and close deals around migrating and modernizing applications, including large-scale data center migrations, SAP, Oracle, Mainframe, and custom application refactoring
• Work alongside our enterprise account teams, solution architects, and customer success managers (CSMs) to help customers accelerate their cloud migration journey, and modernize their business on AWS
• Transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more
• Focus on understanding our customer's key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical assessment to the customer, then use these inputs to design reliable and scalable cloud architectures, as well as help build the overall migration plan
• Collaborate with Business Development, Professional Services, and our Partner team to ensure successful management of customer progression through programs like the AWS Migration Acceleration Program
• Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS
• Defining and executing technical migration strategies by working with highly technical teams within AWS (Solutions Architects, CSMs, Technical Account Managers, professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners)
• Delivering modern architectures such as micro services and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities
• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration
• Driving the co-development of new go-to-market approaches and opportunities with the Geo business lead
• Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the AWS platform and the Migration Acceleration Program
• Working as part of a cross functional team to identify, develop, and close deals
• Engaging with C-level customer executives to inspire, define and execute on Enterprise cloud migration strategies demonstrating thought-leadership and a ‘can do’ approach to enterprise migrations, working backwards from customer needs