Principal Specialist Solutions Architect - Containers, Global Financial Services, WWSO GTM SSA - GFS

The AWS Specialist and Partner (ASP) organization is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) which is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customers most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. ASP teams include business development specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of ASP youll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as #OneTeam

We are looking for individuals to join our team of Specialist Solutions Architects. As a part of this team you will have the opportunity to help shape our services like Amazon Elastic Container Service Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. You will work directly with the most interesting and creative customers - leaders in their respective fields - Earning Trust to understand their requirements and turn them into reality. You will also demonstrate Customer Obsession representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams to evolve AWS products. You will innovate and scale architectural best practices building and operating advanced scalable reliable and secure workloads by collaborating with customers developing content and enabling the wider community to adopt the AWS portfolio.

You will solve business challenges through cloud technology. As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SA) for Container Services you will be one of the team of recognized experts in AWS Container technologies responsible for influencing company strategy and advising on large-scale application migration & modernization strategy and plans by working directly with customers. You will help customers understand how to improve their businesses using the container orchestration services provided by AWS. You will partner with Go-To-Market leaders to understand customer and partner requirements. You will help develop sales programs and identify new workloads market segments and opportunities that can be served by AWS Container Services. Thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers and helping to change how technology is viewed are important aspects of the role. You will be interacting communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as product/services teams field solutions architecture sales marketing business development and professional services in order to deliver results.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.



Key job responsibilities
Design/implementation/deployment experience of advanced containerized solutions architectures.
Deployment and operations of workloads on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) AWS Fargate Kubernetes or others.

Earn trust and be able to partner with technical customer executives to design develop and delivery on large on-premises to AWS migration & modernization initiatives.

Use data and customer anecdotes feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.

Partner with Business Development teams to define the container components of best in class GTM concepts solutions and initiative.

A day in the life
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- 10 years working with customers in helping them with technology decisions hosted and managed services in technology industry.
- 8 years of business development strategic partnerships consulting or program/product management experience.
- Experience in software development methodologies CI/CD DevOps and High Availability architectures in the cloud
- 5 years of experience in working with cloud-native and containerized workloads with a financial services organization.
- Experience with working with cloud native applications container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes ECS EKS Fargate Docker Mesos OpenShift RedHat and/or others

- Experience with Serverless and application modernization tools
- Experience working with Financial Services companies in Insurance Payments Banking or Capital Markets
- Experience in selling technical cloud services or software technology services to financial services organizations
- MBA Computer Science and/or Engineering/Math background is highly desired; working knowledge of software development practices and data center/infrastructure/networking technologies 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 $164500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284300/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.