Solutions Architect, AWS, WWPS SA State and Local Government & Higher Education

This position is expected to be within a 50 mile radius of the Boston office.

Do you like helping customers implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems Would you like to do this using the latest cloud computing technologies and generative AI solutions Do you have a knack for helping groups understand application architectures and integration approaches and the consultative and leadership skills to launch a project on a trajectory to success

Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology platform Would you like to be part of a sales group but have your opinion valued as a technical resource as part of planning and strategies

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing State and Local Government & Higher Education business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazons utility computing web services (e.g. AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS RDS and AWS CloudFront) and Generative AI Services (Amazon Bedrock Amazon Q) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures responding to RFPs developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad knowhow around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.

Key job responsibilities
As a Solutions Architect on our team you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share bestpractice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community. You will gain the opportunity to learn from collaborate with and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the following:

Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures
Our company credo: Work hard. Have fun. Make history. Its critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.
Deepdive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

With experience in the following key areas:

Technical presentation experience White board small and large group presentations
Technical Web Services development/deployment experience cloud computing
Operational Web site/services operations management and security
Ability to travel 30%

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a betterrounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.


Diverse Experiences
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EEO/Accommodations
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2 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
6 years of Information Technology (IT) experience

Experience in technology/software sales presales or consulting
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience in design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures
Knowledge of AWS services
Prior experience in state and local government or higher education

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