Senior Cloud Architect

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, you will be responsible for partnering with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services. You will help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost-optimized application.

You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS Services. You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.

As a core member of the account team, you will drive usage and adoption across a specific customer. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build knowledge and broad use of AWS.

You will also need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with other teams within AWS, such as services teams, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complemented by technical depth in one or two areas, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required for engaging with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, Cloud Architects, Directors, VP's, and CXOs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic account SAs build long-term customer relationships, getting to know the details of each customer's environment and business.
• They offer strong technical guidance and proactively seek to improve the architectural position of the customer.

About the Team:

About AWS:

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.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's 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, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences.

Mentorship & Career Growth:

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll 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.

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 AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• 5+ years of experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification.
• Professional experience architecting, operating cloud-based solutions.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and manage high ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.