Senior Customer Solution Architect

Caylent

20h • $195,000 - $216,000 • Remote

About The Position

Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) for workload migrations, modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security, and compliance. The company operates fully remote with employees across Canada, the United States, and Latin America, fostering a culture of technological curiosity. They are seeking a Sr. Customer Solutions Architect to partner with their sales team. This role requires broad and deep AWS expertise and the ability to establish oneself as a trusted advisor to existing and potential customers. The mission is to help determine and communicate solutions to customer goals, drive their business forward using AWS, and collaborate with and enable AWS pursuit teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience architecting, building, and operating solutions on AWS
• 10+ years of experience with infrastructure, application, database, and/or networking architecture
• Ability to assess and align business and technical strategy with customer needs
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Superb presentation & workshop leadership skills, ability to tailor conversations to technical SMEs through executive leadership audiences
• Expert understanding of cloud-native patterns and Well-Architected best practices
• Ability to travel up to 25% (conditions permitting)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with highly-available, fault-tolerant architectures
• Experience with IT compliance frameworks and requirements (E.g. PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, security)
• Previous experience in pre-sales or equivalent company-internal strategic roadmap influence
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS DevOps Professional, AWS Specialty Certifications
• Deep domain expertise in Application Development, Data, or DevOps
• Industry vertical expertise (E.g. FinTech, HealthCare, Oil & Gas)

Responsibilities

• Lead deep dive architecture & design sessions with customers and propose Well-Architected solutions
• Author proposals and statements of work that capture customer requirements & constraints and ensure successful project outcomes
• Educate customers & evangelize AWS through blogs, white papers, webinars, presentations, and direct customer engagement
• Ability to win significantly complex pursuits and interact with strategic stakeholders
• Provide mentorship to CSA peers, and provide guidance on more complex/strategic pursuits
• Proactively contribute to the advancement of team best practices and processes

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Generous and flexible PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees