Are you passionate about the Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports (MEGS) industries? Do you have a track record of designing technology platforms that create exceptional customer experiences? If so, we invite you to join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) MEGS Industry Specialist Solutions Architecture Team, where you’ll help our customers and partners innovate and succeed in the cloud.
We are seeking a Solutions Architect with extensive expertise in Media & Entertainment (including Content Production, Media Supply Chain & Archive, Broadcast Modernisation, Direct-to-Consumer Streaming, and Monetisation), GameTech (game backend frameworks, game servers, and networking) and Stadiums (immersive customer experiences). Working backwards from our customer business needs, you’ll offer strategic advice to help unlock business value through technology. This role involves close collaboration with business development, account management, professional services, support, product teams, and the AWS partner ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the broader Industry Specialist team to shape the strategic plan and drive cloud adoption.
- Design and deliver innovative technical solutions to engage and inspire customers and partners.
- Build technical credibility and trust during sales cycles, engaging directly with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, and Senior Developers across the Gaming industry.
- Work with AWS service teams and partners to deploy, pilot, and scale MEGS focused solutions, collaborating with sales enablement, regional business development, and account teams.
- Lead customer briefings, represent AWS MEGS at industry events, and advance thought leadership in gaming technology solutions.
- Educate customers on the benefits of AWS, engaging in in-depth architectural discussions to ensure their solutions are optimised for successful cloud deployment.
- Deliver training sessions, both one-to-one and group formats, to share knowledge with customers exploring or already using AWS.
- Capture and share best practices within the AWS Solutions Architect community to foster continuous learning and improvement.
Work Conditions
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Requirements
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
