Senior Solutions Architect, Automotive and Manufacturing

Amazon • Irvine, CA

1d • $153,600 - $239,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking experienced and motivated technologists with a unique blend of technical depth, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills to join their team. In this role, you will be dynamic, creative, and eager to take on challenges, making a significant impact by educating, designing, and building cloud solutions within the Automotive and Manufacturing industry. Your expertise in large-scale computing solutions, enterprise technology adoption patterns, industry experience, and cloud technologies will enable you to engage in deep-dive discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions. You will continuously hone your existing technical skills and develop new ones in a fast-paced environment. As a trusted customer advocate, you will develop the technology strategy for large enterprise customers in complex environments, interacting daily with senior executive leaders and cloud architects to build relationships and foster cloud advocacy. You will assist customers in becoming AI-Enabled Enterprises by implementing leading-edge AI technologies, designing advanced cloud-based solutions, adopting cloud best practice designs, and modernizing enterprise workloads. In partnership with various AWS teams, you will craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures to solve customer business problems, build mindshare, and accelerate AWS service adoption. Collaborating with the sales team, you will drive customer satisfaction and revenue growth across a broad portfolio of technologies. A critical skill for this role is the ability to connect technologies to measurable business value, demonstrating strategic thinking about business challenges and articulating technical solutions. As part of the broader SA community, you will capture and share best practices, generate technical content, and participate in hiring activities.

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
• Experience working with or having knowledge of cloud computing and existing cloud technologies
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of technical work experience

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 4+ years of architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc. experience
• AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company, or experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
• Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
• Experience in technology-related sales, business development, or sales engineering/consulting
• Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, or experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company

Responsibilities

• Architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Working with end user or developer communities
• Communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Hands-on building of GenAI-based solutions or architectures
• Developing the technology strategy for large enterprise customers
• Implementing leading-edge AI technologies
• Designing advanced cloud-based solutions
• Adopting cloud best practice designs
• Modernizing enterprise workloads in the cloud
• Crafting highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures
• Driving customer satisfaction and revenue growth
• Capturing and sharing best practices with peers
• Generating internal and external technical content
• Participating in hiring activities

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree