Senior Solutions Architect,

Job ID: 2940107 | Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL Branch of a Foreign Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, you will have the exciting opportunity to assist and shape the future of a high potential set of digitally native customers. You will partner with various AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.

In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a set of Enterprise Customers. 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 a mindshare and broad use of AWS.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. 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.

Key job responsibilities

1. As a key member of the sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS. Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
2. 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.
3. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
4. Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.

1. In 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.
2. Enjoy working with dynamic digital customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers.
3. Have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a systems engineer/architect.
4. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions.
5. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.

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 migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Experience working in the Enterprise Greenfield space.