Solutions Architect, ISV

Amazon • Boston, MA

3d

About The Position

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers
of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every
customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and
unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique
challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This
customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us
and help us grow.
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 mindshare 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.
Here are some other qualities we are looking for: Be great fun to work with - at
AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you
will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be
dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big
impact. Enjoy working with large, global customers. You will have a passion for
educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and
challenging set of enterprise customers.
Have a good understanding of large scale computing solutions. You will enjoy
keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can
make contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take
part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions
built on AWS.

Requirements

• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Responsibilities

• Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• As part of the account management team, formulate and execute a strategy.
• Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many enablement sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, workshops, and others.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical stakeholders within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

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

What This Job Offers

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