Senior Solutions Architect, Retail, Consumer Goods & Restaurants, AWS

As a trusted customer advocate Solutions Architects help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud. Youll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers in Retail Consumer Goods & Restaurants through your passion for educating training designing and building cloud solutions.

You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your enterprise customers and you will do this by mobilizing resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.
Work/Life HarmonyOur team is focused on balancing life with our work and we do this via work autonomy and by prioritizing solutions and processes that enable us to scale faster than the business. While there may be an opportunity to work from an office (location dependent) working remotely is supported and often times encouraged. Work hours are flexible and typically self-defined.

Key job responsibilities
- In partnership with the sales team formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
- As a key member of the business development and sales team ensure success in building and migrating applications software and services on the AWS platform
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
- Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
- Act as a technical liaison between customers service engineering teams and support

A day in the life
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About the team
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers whether that is how we build products and solutions how we sell how we deliver or how we partner.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect team partners with customers in Retail CG & Restaurants to design and build some of the most scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. AWS Solutions Architects collaborate with AWS Sales and other AWS teams to help address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

- 7 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
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients

- Technology experience including: cloud architecture applications development relational databases NoSQL databases analytics machine learning networking security storage DevOps containers serverless CI/CD management and monitoring cloud migrations IT transformation.
- Experience architecting/designing solutions built on cloud ideal
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
- Ability to design and implement generative AI and agentic solutions that drive business outcomes
- Presentation and white boarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and technical teams.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
- Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
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