About the Job
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will have the exciting opportunity to assist and shape the future of a high potential set of digitally native customers. You will partner with various AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a set of digital native customers. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and guide them in migrating existing workloads to the cloud. You will also help shape and execute strategies to build mindshare and broad use of AWS.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team
- Formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
- Own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions
- Conduct training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community
A Day in the Life
In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, willing to take on challenges and make a big impact. You will enjoy working with diverse digital native customers and will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions.
You should have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions, with past experience as a systems engineer or architect. You will keep your technical skills honed while developing new ones, contributing to deep architecture discussions, and regularly participating in educational and design exercises.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or Internet industries
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end-user or developer communities
