Solutions Architect, Benelux Solutions Architecture

Are you passionate about guiding top software companies in the BeNeLux (Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg) area in their global innovation and acceleration Do you want to help our customers adopt agile operation models build modern SaaS architectures and help them be at the forefront of their Generative AI transformation

As a Solutions Architect at AWS youll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey.

Come build the future with us.

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.

The role will be based in Amsterdam.

Key job responsibilities
You will manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers making recommendations on security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.

You will also:

- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- You will build the technical relationship with customers and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
- Internally you will be the voice of the customer sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features.
- You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. whitepapers code samples blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS (e.g. through workshops user groups meetups public speaking online videos or conferences).
- Contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architecture organization by hiring coaching and mentoring others.
- Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customers outcomes.

If you can educate AWS customers about the art of the possible while challenging the impossible come build the future with us.

A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to work with account managers to help customers accelerate their cloud implementation to modernize their business on AWS. Working with these customers you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility innovation performance resiliency cost security and more using both native and partner solutions.

Our teams focus on understanding customer key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical recommendation to the customer with a goal of designing a robust cloud architecture that can scale as their business requires.

About the team
The AWS Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with Enterprise companies. Were here to help customers to design and build some of the most scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions cost efficiently to enable them to expand their business globally.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

The Solutions Architect team is part of the global Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) 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.

- Experience in a major technology area such as Compute Storage Database Developer Tools Machine Learning Security or IoT
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent or experience in design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science engineering or a related technical field
- Experience or certifications in API design cloud architecture/deployment service-oriented architecture mobile development performance optimization databases design and related fields
- Experience in strategic thinking about business enterprise software products and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent
- Experience defining refining and implementing sales processes procedures and policies or equivalent
- Experience in oral and written communication in English

- Experience with enterprise-scale infrastructure or development-based cloud programs/projects in a related industry
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud computing such as AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform etc.
- Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
- Experience creating and delivering written and oral communications for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with cloud native technologies
- Experience working in a customer-facing environment

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