Senior Solutions Architect, Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Australia & New Zealand

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) youll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes. Youll operate as their trusted advisor ensuring a great experience with AWS and most importantly for our customers.

Youll manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and your customers helping them by making recommendations on security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging mission-critical projects.

Internally you are the voice of the customer sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features and program this role your creative thinking will link technology to solutions. You will help customers deliver on our shared goal to transform the experience of citizens who interact with all levels of Government Education and Health.

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). Youll evangelise and educate customers about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops user groups meet-ups public speaking online videos or conferences).

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible while challenging the impossible come build the future with us.

A day in the life
Solutions Architects are part of the sales organisation. They meet with partners to understand their business and technical challenges crafting solutions that leverage AWS products and services. To position the best solutions with partners a portion of their time is dedicated to learning and experimentation with the latest technologies.

About the team
Solutions Architects are technical thought leaders who evangelise emerging technologies on a conceptual and practical level. Our SAs play a critical role in the adoption and advancement of cloud computing capabilities within the public sector. They think outside the box to provide solutions that are cost-effective time-saving and secure. As an SA youll solve problems at both the mission and technical levels by working backwards from customer requirements.

- 8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- Knowledge of AWS services market segments customer base and industry verticals
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences

- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience leading or developing high quality enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
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