Senior Specialist Analytics Solutions Architect, ANZ, AGS Specialists Data and AI

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design build operate and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services upskill with AWS Training and Certification optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners AWS Sovereign Cloud AWS International Product and the Generative AI Innovation Center. Youll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Specialist SAs play a critical role in capturing customer feedback advocating for roadmap enhancements and anticipating customer requirements as they work backwards from their needs. As domain experts SSAs also participate in field engagement and enablement producing content such as blogs and workshops for customers partners and the AWS Technical Field.

Analytics SSAs combine technical skills in data and analytics with business acumen and technical sales skills. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster. Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earths Best Employer.

Specialist Solutions Architects are part of the Amazon Global Sales Organization (AGS) which builds and executes go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. Our teams include business development specialist sales and specialist solutions architecture working together to provide customer-obsessed solutions that help people run their businesses more effectively. We pride ourselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as OneTeam

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Key job responsibilities
- Design best in class analytics solutions for all stages of customer and product lifecycles.
- Partner with SAs Sales Business Development and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.
- Thought Leadership - Evangelize and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of related subject matter experts.

About the team
This role is part of the Data and AI specialist team for Australia and New Zealand. As a member of this team you will work with customers and be based out of our Auckland offices. You will focus on customers across New Zealand working directly with customers across industry verticals from large Enterprises to start-ups across all stages of their cloud journey.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

- 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
- Knowledge of data analytics and AI services and solutions (e.g. data lakes data warehouses big data search streaming and GenAI) and their architecture and infrastructure needs

- Technical communication skills; able to bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical requirements
- Familiarity with Data and AI and how it is used for modern data solutions
- Cloud expertise as demonstrated by one or more cloud certifications with Data & Analytics related discipline highly preferred

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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

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