Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts

Are you ready to help organizations navigate their cloud journey with AWS As a Senior Solutions Architect you will be serve as a technical advisor for a premier media and entertainment customer. You will combine deep technical knowledge with business acumen to architect solutions that address complex challenges and drive innovation.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work with a customer who operates at unprecedented scale. You will leverage your foundational technical knowledge across various domains while diving deep into specific technical areas. With your builder mindset youll craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that help customers transform their business through technology.

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Key job responsibilities
Design and own end-to-end customer solutions shepherding them through the implementation lifecycle while combining business acumen with technical skills to architect solutions for complex problems.
Drive technical solution discussions with customer teams diving deeply into technical details including design choices best practices and use cases.
Create technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others educating and sharing best practices through sample code blog posts presentations and workshops.
Build consensus across customer teams by clearly articulating concepts and strategies harmonizing discordant views and leading resolution of contentious issues.
Identify opportunities to accelerate solution adoption by componentizing solutions and leveraging existing reusable assets that can benefit the broader customer community.

A day in the life
Your day begins with internal stakeholder meetings to align on customer priorities before joining customer calls to discuss technical architecture and solution options. Youll spend time experimenting with new services to solve specific customer challenges then document your findings. Afternoons might include solutioning sessions where you craft architectures that address complex media workloads followed by building proof-of-concepts to demonstrate feasibility. Youll close your day evangelizing best practices to both internal teams and customers.

About the team
Our team partners with premier travel services provider. We help this innovative travel company transform their businesses and deliver exceptional content experiences to millions of users worldwide. The scale at which our customers operate presents unique technical challenges that require creative solutions.

Join us to be part of a team that values technical excellence customer obsession and innovation. Youll work alongside passionate technologists who are excited about solving complex problems and helping customers achieve remarkable outcomes through AWS technologies.

- 8 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Mountain View - 176600.00 - 239000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually