Senior Solution Architect, Strategic Accounts, Strategic Accounts - Digital Native

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 strong technical depth business aptitude and the ability to lead indepth technology discussions articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with 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 including MySQL AWS Aurora and NoSQL (e.g. AWS DynamoDB MongoDB and Cassandra). Help our customers design their AI strategy and architecture or enable datadriven decision making through technologies such as Hadoop Spark EMR RedShift and Kinesis.

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.


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8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
Experience working with end user or developer communities

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.