Solutions Architect III - AMZ9642385

Amazon • Houston, TX

32d

About The Position

Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support. Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and access migration feasibility. Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions. Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively. Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform. Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting the AWS and define future platform requirement for on-boarding and migration to AWS. Author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers. Share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community. Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project manager, directors, and C-level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments. Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

Requirements

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Database Administrator, Support Engineer, Systems Engineer or another related occupation.
• Employer will accept Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation as equivalent to the Master's and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) designing, implementing, and consulting with distributed applications; (2) architecting, provisioning, and deploying applications to public cloud environments or on-premises virtualized environments using C++, Perl, Python, or Java; (3) experience with database architecture, performance tuning, and either Big Data or Hadoop.

Nice To Haves

• Please see job description and the position requirements above.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.
• Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies and common infrastructure platform components, and access migration feasibility.
• Architect hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions.
• Guide customers on architecture choices and inform them of the best practices to adopt AWS efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Ensure success in building, migrating, and deploying applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Brief senior executive team on customer progress of adopting the AWS and define future platform requirement for on-boarding and migration to AWS.
• Author AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers.
• Share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
• Engage with developers, system administrators, software architects, project manager, directors, and C-level customers to define cloud strategies and deployments.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ensure that solutions are designed for successful deployment on AWS.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level