Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, Automotive&Manufacturing EMEA SA Team

Amazon • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with some of the world's largest Automotive and Manufacturing 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 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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions
• Lead discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology and AI strategy and guide them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions
• Design end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen, driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate implementation through reusable components, parallel workstreams, etc.
• Share knowledge by developing technical content like sample code, presentations, workshops to exemplify best practices and educate customers
• Drive product innovation by gathering customer feedback, translating needs into clear requirements, and partnering with product teams through development
• Resolve complex technical problems through root cause analysis, both for customers and internally
• Contribute strategic planning, recruiter/develop talent, build team consensus, and provide guidance to more junior solutions architects
• Review customer requirements and technical challenges, focusing on opportunities to implement complex solutions architectures that can transform business outcomes also leveraging AI capabilities
• Develop proof-of-concepts that demonstrate how cloud solutions can transform business processes
• Influence service team leadership and product marketing on the future needs for customers, prioritizing roadmap features and GTM messaging
• Dedicate time to continuous learning about the latest advancements in AWS service capabilities
• Participate in knowledge sharing activities with colleagues, creating field enablement materials to help other SAs understand how to integrate cloud solutions into customer architectures

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed