AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and midmarket accounts to enterpriselevel customers including public sector.
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect within the Strategic Accounts segment you are responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services. You have technical depth business aptitude and the ability to lead indepth technology discussions articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services. Effective communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging and influence Enterprise Architects Technical Architects Cloud Architects Directors VPs and CXOs.
You will be part of a culture of innovation where youll use AWS services to help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic scalable cost optimized application. Enable innovation through continuous deployment in DevOps build highly scalable web & mobile applications with data store technologies.
AWS services cover a wide range of technologies including operational security infrastructure DevOps highly available software architectures observability machine learning and analytics. Our customer solutions usually involve many of these at once. AWS Solutions Architects are expected to have at least one technical areas of depth but also need to be capable of leading discussions across most of these areas.
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A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
As a Solutions Architect you will provide architectural and technical leadership to a portfolio of customers who are looking to leverage AWS services at scale. You will be the domain expert guiding architectural design decisions while demonstrating customer obsession to ensure high availability and performance of the customers applications. Youll have the opportunity to learn and be curious while evangelizing the latest innovations and best practices in infrastructure engineering and application design. You will mentor peers and customers while growing your knowledge.
As a core member of the account team you will drive revenue growth across a specific customer. As a trusted customer advocate you will help organizations understand and implement advanced cloudbased solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS. You will also need to be adept at interacting communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams marketing and professional services as well as representing your team to executive management.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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10 years of experience as enterprise / cloud architect / application architect.
5 years of experience in any one specific technology domain areas (e.g. AIML data & analytics migration and mordenisation).
5 years of experience in designing complex solution using public cloud.
Experience in presales consulting with proven presentation skills executive engagement capabilities and track record of effectively communicating across diverse stakeholders.
10 years experience in designing and implementing large distributed systems with deep expertise in core infrastructure solution architecture and distributed computing patterns.
Extensive background in AWS cloud solutions (AWS certified) cloud migration strategies and enterprise architecture with proven track record of successful implementations.
Strong foundation in software development and modern engineering practices demonstrating ability to architect complex solutions and adapt to emerging technologies while delivering scalable enterprisegrade solutions.
Professional experience in presales consulting with proven presentation skills executive engagement capabilities and track record of effectively communicating with stakeholders at all levels while managing ambiguous requirements.
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