This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
The Area Specialist Team is made up of deep domain experts who work directly with our customers to solve their most complex challenges. We are part of the Account Team responsible for account planning opportunity identification and pursuit. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.
The Amazon Connect Specialist Team is made up of deep CX and Enterprise Contact Center domain experts who work directly with our customers to solve their most complex challenges. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams strengthening the product roadmap. Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.
Amazon Connect was designed from the ground up to be omnichannel it provides a seamless experience across voice and chat for your customers and agents leveraging AWS. This is a highly technical position for someone who can dive deep build complex AWS-optimized architectures and help customers accelerate their adoption of AWS services. Your broad responsibilities include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects. You should be as comfortable discussing complex technical details with a room full of engineers as you are briefing an executive addition you will engage with other AWS solutions architects partner and professional services organizations to drive large and highly complex sales opportunities to closure.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
- Collaborate with specialist sales marketing and products teams to ideate around your customers most challenging business problems.
- Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
- Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customers technical objectives.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc. Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams. Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.
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- 7 years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications
- 5 years management of technical customer facing resources
- 5 years of experience building integrations across WFM CRM and contact center solutions or experience with communications protocols and APIs such as WebRTC and SIP or similar CCaaS technology
- Experience developing solutions and passion for hands-on experience with scripting/coding (e.g. python java c# .NET or )
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers.
- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
- Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired
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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.