Sr. Solutions Architect, RRCPG

Amazon • Jersey City, NJ

22h • $169,000 - $228,600

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. The team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and committed support, diving deep to understand unique challenges and crafting innovative solutions. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect team partners with customers to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. AWS Solutions Architects collaborate with AWS Sales and other AWS teams to help address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. This role helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and provides advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud, driving successful business outcomes across enterprise customers through educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions. As a trusted customer advocate, the Sr. Solutions Architect is responsible for guiding organizations in adopting advanced cloud-based solutions and migrating their workloads to the cloud, developing and implementing a strategy to build mindshare and increase adoption of AWS. The role requires effective interaction and communication with various teams at AWS, including services, marketing, and professional services, while also representing the team to executive management. Travel is mostly regional, and post-pandemic is expected to be 15-20%.

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

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex customer requirements, making technical trade-offs and evaluating architectures for scale while ensuring solutions are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer senior leaders, understanding their business objectives and technical challenges to influence strategic direction and ensure technology decisions will meet long-term business outcomes.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences, creating technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others while harmonizing discordant views to build consensus.
• Lead technical discussions and dive deeply into technical details with customer teams across application architecture, system design, and implementation considerations, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Drive effective customer feedback gathering, distilling and translating feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams while contributing to reference designs and reusable artifacts.

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

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed