About the Job
Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems? Do you bring technical foresight to design infrastructure, application, and data solutions that drive customer value? Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer cloud adoption in West Africa, where you will be working with our Small-Medium Business (SMB) customers across all industries and tech domains.
In this role, you’ll build technical relationships with customers and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey. You’ll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency to accelerate their projects. Your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to implement or document cloud-native reference architectures for various use cases.
Solution Architects lead activities such as architecture reviews, white-boarding sessions, demos, and technical workshops. They collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams, and the partner ecosystem. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology through workshops and public speaking.
If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible while challenging the impossible, come build the future with us.
Work Conditions
- Work-life balance is valued; flexibility is part of our working culture.
- An inclusive team culture that encourages diversity and continuous learning.
- Opportunities for mentorship and career growth within the organization.
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 in applications and infrastructures.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking experience.
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.
- Experience working with end-user or developer communities.
