Sr. Solutions Architect

Amazon • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving
revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and
mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to
help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join
Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and
brightest engineers, architects and technical managers while also developing
your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and
progressive technology companies anywhere.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS you will work directly with customers. We are
looking for individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to work backwards
from these customers' needs and help them gain competitive edge using AWS. As an
experienced technologist and key member of the Account team you will help
influence customers' architectural choices across broad use cases involving
security, compute, storage networking as well as advanced scenarios involving
serverless, analytics, and AI/ML.

As a part of the role, you will provide exceptional technical design guidance
and thought leadership. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice
knowledge with the AWS solution architect community. You will also gain the
opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest
technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise
architecture.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience with Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), database systems (SQL and NoSQL), AI tools for development productivity, contributing to open-source projects, and/or version control systems

Responsibilities

• help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon Web Services within large enterprises
• owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects
• working cross-organizationally to facilitate widespread use and adoption of the AWS platform
• developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform
• represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
• think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

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