The UKI AGS (AWS Global Sales) Solutions Architecture team is a diverse group of technologists from a variety of backgrounds who work hand in hand with AWS customers to understand the customers needs and provide prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with AWS technology.
As part of this team you will blend business acumen with technical guidance to effectively engage with Enterprise scale organizations at all stages of cloud adoption helping them reinvent their businesses using AWS technology guiding them on their cloud journey. You will encourage innovation and drive change to achieve better customer outcomes.
You will manage the overall technical relationship between our customers and AWS and lead activities such as architecture reviews whiteboarding sessions creating and delivering demos and technical workshops. You will engage at all levels of the organization to influence decision makers. Internally youll be the voice of the customer sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features as well as collaborating with other teams such as account management professional services support and the AWS partner ecosystem.
In this role you will get to practice your creativity linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will create and share best practices technical content and reference architectures for a variety of use cases. e.g. High Performance Computing (HPC) Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Serverless and Container based architectures Analytics and Big Data DevOps or Security.
You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Practical knowledge of the AWS platform is desired but not required provided you have a sound technical foundation and a desire to learn.
At Amazon you will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the longterm success of the customer. We value your passion to discover invent and build on behalf of customers.
This role is within the United Kingdom & Ireland (UK&I) organization working with the largest Enterprise organisations within the semiconductor industry in the UK&I. They often have significant technology landscapes built over many years to support a large scale business which will require you to be comfortable dealing with complexity and a broad set of technologies and use cases. You will be focused on building depth in common use cases creating reusable solutions and guiding your customer with insight into industry technology best practices.
Key job responsibilities
Influence the technical strategy of the semiconductor industry for the UKI
Work directly with Enterprise customers across the UKI and their respective global sites to accelerate their challenging projects and recommend bestpractice architectures in line with their longterm business outcomes
Build technical relationships with customers up to the Csuite and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
Share the voice of the customer to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers code samples blog posts).
Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops user groups meetups public speaking online videos or conferences).
Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by interviewing candidates and having a voice in hiring decisions. You will also be helping others develop new skills by mentoring team members and knowledge sharing
Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your customers outcomes and your interests.
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Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising endtoend technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data and analytics
Experience communicating across technical and nontechnical audiences and at Clevel including training workshops publications
Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
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