Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Segment - AoAAs an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Senior Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment, you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services. In this role, you will help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized application. You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS Services. You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation. Along the way, you will get the opportunity to enhance your own body of knowledge and have some fun.
Our team works with the world's largest cloud customer Amazon. Our skilled architects work with smart, experienced, and innovative Amazon engineers who are willing to tackle challenges at dizzying scales. Our team innovates working side-by-side with Amazon engineers on projects such as generative AI-powered expert shopping assistant (Rufus), live streaming NFL Thursday Night Football (TNF) on Prime Video, or building cloud-based clean room solutions for Amazon Advertising. In helping Amazon innovate on AWS, our solution architects also engage with AWS teams building services such as EC2, DynamoDB, and Bedrock, to influence and shape the AWS roadmaps. Our architects then leverage the experience, expertise, and lessons learned to write blog posts and present at leading industry conferences such as reInvent.
As a core member of the account team, you will drive usage and adoption across a specific customer. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand and implement advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate and scale existing workloads in the cloud. 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.
For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complemented by technical depth in one or two areas, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VPs and CXOs.
If you are excited about the prospect of using your cloud architecture experience to assist our most valuable customers, tackling challenging problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, enhancing and growing your own skills, and having fun, then we would love to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities include building long-term customer relationships, getting to know the details of each customer's environment and business, offering strong technical guidance, and proactively seeking to improve the architectural position of the customer.
Minimum Qualifications: 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experienceBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent5+ years experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing5+ years experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.Preferred Qualifications: AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certificationProfessional experience architecting, operating cloud-based solutionsExperience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloudDemonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and manage high ambiguityExcellent written and verbal communication skills.Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developersAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.
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