Principal Solution Architect, LATAM Cloud AI and Innovation

Solutions Architects (SAs) work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption. SAs create and present technical content and sharing best practices.
SAs are responsible for the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security cost performance reliability sustainability and operational efficiency. They work to understand the customers needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create solutions with AWS technology. SAs lead activities such as architecture reviews white-boarding sessions demos and technical workshops. They collaborate with other teams such as account management professional services support product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.

SAs are technical leaders who combine business acumen with technical skills to architect solutions to complex problems where business objectives may be defined but technology strategy and technical solution design are not. They influence their customer or partners longer-term technology strategy; applying judgement and experience when advising customers on short- and long-term implications of tradeoffs. They are trusted advisors to and understand their customers or partners business its needs its technology challenges and its industry; also they build and own relationships with senior leaders ensuring short-term technology decisions will meet long-term business outcomes. They drive technical solution discussions and are able to dive deeply into technical details with customer teams. They are integral to progressing opportunities through their lifecycle. They work with limited guidance to lead and own the design of end-to-end customer solutions and shepherd those solutions through a customers implementation cycle. They also lead internal teams to deliver solutions that delight customers and result in measurable business impact.

SAs often find opportunities to contribute on shifting delivered solutions into reference designs or reusable artefacts and share best practices by leading and owning the development delivery review and maintenance of technical content that educates customers on technology strategy and best practices.
SAs speak at events with significant educational impact for technical and business audiences. They proactively identify gaps in our products and services and distill and translate feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams. They own the root cause resolution of complex problems (both internal and external) and contribute to their organizations strategic planning helping to identify gaps and opportunities. They actively recruit and develop others; leveraging their experience to train teammates on how to best design technical solutions for customers.

AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

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- 10 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications

- 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
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
- Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

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