Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, Automotive&Manufacturing EMEA SA Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner some of the worlds largest Automotive and Manufacturing companies to craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS collaboration with account managers you will assist in driving growth across a set of global customers in your defined country. As a trusted customer advocate the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business products and technical challenges.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with.
At AWS we have a credo of Work hard. Have fun. Make this role you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy working with large global customers. You will have a passion for educating training designing and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems or support engineer. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions
- Lead discussions to shape a customers long-term technology and AI strategy and guide them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible scalable solutions
- Design end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions
- Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate implementation through reusable components parallel workstreams etc.
- Share knowledge by developing technical content like sample code presentations workshops to exemplify best practices and educate customers
- Drive product innovation by gathering customer feedback translating needs into clear requirements and partnering with product teams through development
- Resolve complex technical problems through root cause analysis both for customers and internally
- Contribute strategic planning recruiter/develop talent build team consensus and provide guidance to more junior solutions architects

A day in the life
Review customer requirements and technical challenges focusing on opportunities to implement complex solutions architectures that can transform business outcomes also leveraging AI capabilities
Develop proof-of-concepts that demonstrate how cloud solutions can transform business processes
Influence service team leadership and product marketing on the future needs for customers prioritizing roadmap features and GTM messaging
Dedicate time to continuous learning about the latest advancements in AWS service capabilities
Participate in knowledge sharing activities with colleagues creating field enablement materials to help other SAs understand how to integrate cloud solutions into customer architectures

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 and AI journey 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.

About the team
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 (diversity) 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

- 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
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization

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

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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 MI Detroit - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA NJ Jersey City - 169000.00 - 228600.00 USD annually