Principal Solutions Architect, Capital Markets, Financial Services Industry

Amazon • New York, NY

291d • $164,500 - $284,300

About The Position

AWS is looking for experienced Solutions Architects to help advise our Financial Services customers on how to best adopt and leverage the value of AWS technologies. This is an ideal role for someone with deep experience in the FS industry, expert knowledge of FS applications and infrastructure, and a solid understanding of how cloud services can help FS customers transform their data centers, and more quickly develop innovative industry solutions. 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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the Financial Services industry team.
• Execute go-to-market strategies and programs at a country or area level.
• Identify FS customer needs specific to your area or country.
• Engage directly with customers and account teams to determine business needs.
• Help define and develop industry solutions.
• Coach SAs who are directly supporting FS customers as part of the AWS account teams.
• Gather and provide feedback to engineering teams on how to help FS customers more easily adopt AWS services.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree