Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services, AWS Canada

At AWS we believe in thinking big so you should be motivated to be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge that makes a big impacts to the business and help build the future with us. AWS is looking for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to help advise our Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) customers on how to best adopt and leverage the value of AWS technology. This is an ideal role for someone with experience in the FSI industry knowledge of financial services applications and infrastructure and a solid understanding of the transformative value cloud technologies can bring.

As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA) you should partner with customers AWS Sales and several other AWS teams to craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with sales you should help drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. As a trusted customer advocate you should help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions. You should seek out opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broaden the use of the AWS platform across the customers organization. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges.

As an AWS Solutions Architect you are joining a team that invests in your success by providing a comprehensive learning program. The AWS Solutions Architecture team provides an opportunity to work in an open environment that includes self-paced learning instructor-led training hands-on projects and job shadowing opportunities to develop your knowledge of the AWS ecosystem of services and solutions. The ideal candidate has a curious mind a thirst for knowledge and a desire to understand how technology works. By working backwards from defined customer outcomes you achieve results that delight AWS customers. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and develop new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to long-term customer success.


Key job responsibilities
- Build deep relationships with customers to become a trusted advisor for their most critical workloads that support their digital transformation and journey to the cloud.

- Support achievement of revenue objectives through the adoption and migration of applications software and services onto the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team.

- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

- Contribute to AWS internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge.

- Act as a liaison between customers service engineering teams and support to address customer needs.

About the team
AWS Global Sales
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service unmatched technology and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customers unique challenges then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the worlds most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Diverse Experiences
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- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- 6 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
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

- Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
- 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

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