Sr. Solutions Architect

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build a mindshare and broad use of AWS.

Key job responsibilities:

As a key member of the sales team, 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 goals through the adoption of AWS. Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make 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 to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS. You will capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.

In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to make an impact. You'll enjoy working with dynamic customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse set of customers.

Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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