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Cloud is the new normal and our customers are interested in leveraging AWS to increase agility improve security reduce costs and gain global footprint.
Our customers are at the forefront of this adoption. AWS Solutions Architects help educating our customers on how to craft highly scalable flexible resilient secure and costeffective cloud architectures. As a trusted customer advocate the solutions architect will help organizations understand advanced cloudbased solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within organizations ranging from new startups to large enterprise customers. The ability to link technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges.
We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable at the intersection of technology and business. They will be broadly competent across many areas of technology and deep in a handful of areas. Its ok for them to be less deep in some places but we need to feel confident that they have the fundamentals and the ability to learn complex new technologies quickly.
On the business side we are looking for excellent communication skills. The Solutions Architect will spend most of their day interacting with customers via email phone WebEx and inperson meetings. They will meet with developers team leads engineering directors and CxOs. Given the large portion of customers who are selfserved interest in and ability to create onetomany content such as reference architectures and blog posts is an important part of the role.
On the softskills side we are looking for ability to moderate tone and technical depth based on audience and solid ability to pick up on nonverbal communication. Also ability to pick up on unsaid drivers is important.
On the personal attributes side we are looking for individuals who are passionate about technology and have the drive and capability to absorb and retain vast amounts of deep technical information continuously. People who might get easily bored in slower moving environments might do well here.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with the sales team formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
Educate SWIM customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
Conduct onetofew and onetomany training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
Capture and share bestpractice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.
As a key member of the business development and sales team ensure success in building and migrating applications software and services on the AWS platform.
Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customerfacing publications such as whitepapers.
Act as a technical liaison between customers and product teams and help evolve the AWS platform.
Depending on location this role requires 2540 domestic travel.
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2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Experience working within software development or Internetrelated industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
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