Senior Solutions Architect, Public Sector Financial Services

Amazon • Toronto, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Solutions Architect to help design and deliver advanced cloud computing solutions to public sector Financial Services customers. You will be a member of a dynamic team, bringing the latest in disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technology to solve difficult and impactful challenges within this vertical. You will be a key member of the business development and sales team and part of the larger AWS Worldwide Public Sector team. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, sales, and other AWS technical teams to craft highly flexible and resilient architectures that address customer mission challenges. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud solutions. You will seek out opportunities to broaden the use of AWS across customer organizations. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the Canadian Government cloud computing landscape, application modernization initiatives, and security requirements. They also have customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS within a customer's environment, present cloud computing concepts and architectures to diverse audiences, and drive discussions with technical and non-technical customer personnel at all levels of an organization. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, mission, product, complex architectures, and technical challenges from a customer perspective and lead a team of solution architects and other technical resources in this context.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 5+ 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

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Deep understanding of the Canadian Government cloud computing landscape, application modernization initiatives, and security requirements
• Customer-facing skills to represent AWS, present cloud computing concepts and architectures, and drive discussions with technical and non-technical personnel
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, mission, product, complex architectures, and technical challenges from a customer perspective
• Ability to lead a team of solution architects and other technical resources

Responsibilities

• Learning about AWS services and solutions
• Advancing the sales cycle by explaining AWS services and solutions to customers
• Advocating on behalf of customers for new features and capabilities

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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