Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Desirable

• At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring Application Modernization Solution Architects to work with and enable our enterprise account teams and customers to accelerate their cloud adoption journey
• Driving customer engagements, you will have an exciting opportunity to help customers maximize the benefits of the cloud through application modernization
• You must 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, Oracle, Mainframe, and custom application refactoring
• You will have the opportunity to 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
• Working with strategic customers, you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more
• You would 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
• You will also 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
• You will have the ability to gain hands-on technical credibility with internal as well as customer technical leaders, and will mentor other AWS solution architects on migration best practices
• 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