Sr Analytics SA, Telco&Games, AGS US Specialist SA, FSI

Amazon • Minneapolis, MN

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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.

At Amazon we’ve been using AI-based products for over 20 years. Want to make
history? We believe that Data is your Generative AI differentiator. Looking to
solve some of the world’s most challenging data problems at scale? Come and join
the AWS Analytics team – where we help our customers build and govern some of
the world’s largest data lakes, massively parallel data warehouses, and some of
the biggest and fastest streaming pipelines. Thousands of customers run managed
analytic workloads on Amazon’s industry leading cloud computing platform.

We are looking for an Analytics Specialized Solutions Architect, a Subject
Matter Expert (SME) that can help customers leverage AWS services to solve their
most challenging business problems. AWS Solution Architects are well-respected
and highly-visible, partnering across the company to own the customer’s
technical experience. We work directly with our customer’s technical and
business leaders, joining forces with Account Managers, Business Development,
and Service Teams to enable customer adoption and growth.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep
domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature
designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who
have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft
scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those
challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application
or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and
unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Area Specialist Team is made up of deep domain experts who work directly
with our customers to solve their most complex challenges. We are part of the
Account Team, responsible for account planning, opportunity identification, and
pursuit. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and
insights to our product teams, strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at
its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to
innovate for their business.

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

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of data engineering pipelines, cloud solutions, ETL management, databases, visualizations and analytical platforms
• Knowledge of open table formats, especially Iceberg
• Understanding of data foundation principles supporting agentic systems

Responsibilities

• Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
• Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers’ most challenging business problems.
• Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer’s technical objectives.
• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc. Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams. Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.

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