AWS Solutions Architect

At Amazon we are continuously striving to me the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS have been helping over one million customers in over 190 countries to deliver flexibility scalability and reliability across their organizations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented bright and driven individuals who work hard have fun and make history.

As a Solution Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS) you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazons services (like Amazon Bedrock Amazon Q Amazon SageMaker Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS etc) within strategic accounts across Italy.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess customer-facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance with software developers and architects. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think structured about business product and technical challenges.

The AWS SA team provides a ramp-up program that includes self-paced learning instructor-led training hands-on projects job shadowing opportunities and a peer-reviewed opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge.

Key job responsibilities
o Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers drive AWS adoption and revenue.
o Be an AWS evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS.
o Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
o Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications software and services on the AWS platform.
o Conduct deep-dive hands-on education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
o Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers tutorials etc.
o Present sessions at AWS and industry conferences.
o Technical liaison between customers service engineering & support teams.
o Serve as a key member of the sales team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
o Scope each customer engagement with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
o Own each engagement and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value.
o Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS SA community.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
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- Extensive design/implementation/consulting/devops experience with distributed applications
- Extensive experience in infrastructure or software architecture with knowledge in associated technology areas such as databases and networking.
- Experience in pre-sales engineering or solutions architecture for technology/software sales
- Ability to travel including internationally.
- Fluency in Italian and English is essential knowledge of other European languages is advantageous
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

- Technical degree required Computer Science or Maths background
- Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- AWS Certifications eg. AWS Solutions Architect Associate o Experience with software/technology in a customer facing role
- Experience with on-premise to cloud migrations or IT transformations
- Experience architecting/operating solutions build on AWS o Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers

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