Solutions Architect - Private Equity, Private Equity Investment Mergers and Acquisitions (iM&A)

Amazon • Boston, MA

4d

About The Position

As a Solutions Architect on the Private Equity team at AWS, you will provide customers with M&A advice using AWS' unique technical perspective, including due diligence and decision support for Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies. The ideal candidate will be able to perform objective analysis of complex IT workloads, including legacy systems, and create high-quality written reports.

You must have basic interviewing skills and the ability to use deductive and inductive reasoning in the context of technical M&A activities. You must possess a technical background that enables you to drive customer engagement with business, finance, and IT executives to the highest levels of our Private Equity customers. The ideal candidate will have the presence and capability to communicate diligence findings and the benefits of cloud computing to application architects, enterprise architects, platform architects, infrastructure architects and engineers, and enterprise security and compliance teams. You will also need a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of businesses, and be deeply familiar with complex, legacy IT environments including applications, middleware, storage, networks, information security, and operations.

You will work closely with AWS Account Solutions Architects, Business Development, Professional Services teams, and partners to help Private Equity customers migrate their legacy applications as well as develop and build cloud-native applications to grow and transform their businesses. This includes leveraging successful migration patterns, cloud-native application architectures (Microservices, Serverless, Containers) and application development and operations practices (Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), and AI/ML and Generative AI.

Responsibilities will include helping customers understand the technical strengths and weaknesses of the companies they are investigating for acquisition. You will also help portfolio companies integrate acquisitions into their AWS environment, identify digital transformation opportunities, and perform technical gap analysis of portfolio companies in preparation for sale.

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
• Experience in cloud architecture

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• MBA, or Master's degree
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• Experience using managed ML/AI solutions
• Experience in Mergers and Acquisition especially Technical Due Diligence and portfolio value creation

Responsibilities

• Analyze business problems and help Private Equity clients understand the strengths and weaknesses of their acquisition targets
• Be objective and act in the best interests of the client
• Help companies develop and implement computer systems and information technology (IT) solutions
• Recommend industry-relevant solutions that enable organizations to leverage technology and create value
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities, including legacy and data center technology, and professional knowledge
• Establish technical credibility (personally or with the broader technical team), and drive discussions with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, Senior Developers, and M&A Deal Teams from customers and partners across the PE segment
• Scope customer engagements, with attention to clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria
• Provide technical & architectural guidance to Private Equity firms and their portfolio of investments and help develop cost optimization strategies
• Work closely with Private Equity Firms and their portfolio companies to ensure they have the technical resources required to be successful using AWS services
• Build rapport with Executives at both the Private Equity firm and their companies, leveraging your understanding of enterprise architecture, mergers and acquisitions, migration, cost optimization of IT infrastructure, and other key technologies (Cloud, software development, open-source software tools, infrastructure management, migrations, etc.)
• Support the wider AWS customer base with specialized workshops and training sessions

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