Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with some of the world’s largest companies to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic technical leader in the field to provide architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote & accelerate customer adoption of AWS.
• Ensure customer & partner success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Be an AWS evangelist; educate customers & partners of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers & partners to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications, such as white papers, blogs, and proof of concepts.
• In partnership with the sales & partner team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS & its partner solutions.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support.

Requirements

• Proven experience in solutions architecture or a related role.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing technology and architecture.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas to a non-technical audience.