Senior Solutions Developer, Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)

Do you have a builders mentality where show me means more than tell me Are you passionate about technology understand cloud architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and the validate the technical feasibility of solutions
As trusted customer advocates the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.
As a prototype developer you will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains across a range of industry verticals like automotive energy health care telco manufacturing and media and entertainment. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the this role its imperative that youre self-guided and disciplined in managing your time to ensure success.
You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as AI/ML AR/VR/Spatial IoT and Serverless. Most prototypes explore the art of the possible with Generative AI. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role.
Here are some qualities we are looking for:
Have a passion for educating training designing and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers which are primarily large enterprises.
The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
As a technical leader you combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability (i.e. comfortable on the white-board and also on the keyboard).
You will engage often in early stages of customer use-cases and also in competitive situations. Being able to deal with ambiguity good communication and being hands-on are important qualities - you will often be the lead technical person in the room and you will be collaborating with other senior leaders from technical and business domains.
Push the technical bar. You will have appetite and take the initiative to learn new topics and experiment covering domains such as AI/ML agentic design serverless and IoT in an enterprise context.
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 willing to take on complex challenges and make a big impact.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.



Key job responsibilities
Engage with customers on a specific use case to determine desired outcomes define a scope and design and implement it (code CDK docs) with a small team of developers in 6 weeks -Identify opportunities to scale your impact through internal and external facing initiatives -Mentor others

A day in the life
While on a customer prototype engagement you will work collaboratively with other developers Customer Success Manager and specialists to deliver results. The small team working on the prototype will change from project to project based on availability specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members come from across the US and EMEA. Larger team meetings occur periodically to share knowledge and get updates on goals etc.

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About the team
As trusted customer advocates the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

- 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
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite S/4HANA SAP Business Warehouse SAP HANA SAP Business Objects etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA SAP Cloud Platform SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
- Experience in SAP clean core design concepts including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI and data & analytics

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