Solutions Architect- Amazon Web Services, Beijing, HCLS SA

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 consistent 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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable scalable low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006 Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services now widely known as cloud computing based on Amazons own back-end technology platform.

Key job responsibilities
As a Solutions Architect within Amazon Web Services you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazons utility services (Amazon EKS Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS Amazon DynamoDB etc) within strategic accounts.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent Amazon well within a customers environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact and give guidance to software developers and architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business product and technical challenges.


A day in the life
Serve as a key technical owner of the Business Development team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
Scope each customer engagement with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
Own each technical engagement and help ensure a timely and successful delivery of value. (delivery of actual solutions to be done by AWS partners)
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the solution architect community.
Understand the AWS market segments customer base and industry verticals.

About the team
Using AWS developers and businesses across all sizes can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them delivering results faster and at a lower cost. AWS cloud helps customers saves substantial costs and time by eliminating their day-to-day management hassle of running their physical datacenters so that they can focus on their core competence. We have a team of personnel who educate and support our customers in the best practices of using cloud services. The team at AWS is committed to providing developers and businesses with tools and services to make their business agile and more efficient.

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- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 2 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

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

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