Partner Solution Architect

Would you like to be part of a team that is redefining the IT industry? Amazon Web Services is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is looking for a world class candidate for the role of Partner Solution Architect/Enterprise Transformation Architect, within our Global Business Consulting & Advisory Partners (BCAP) business function.

This is an ideal role for someone who has experience working for a management consulting or strategic influencer firm, a large IT consulting firm, or a Fortune 500 company. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with management consulting or strategic influencer firms where you will develop business and IT transformation strategy for enterprise customers who are embarking on wide-scale adoption of the AWS platform. Working with these large partners is a team effort that will require influence and coordination with many stakeholders at AWS, at the partner firm and with our joint customers at the most senior levels (CIO, CTO, CISO, CPO / CDO).

Cloud transformation efforts include modernizing applications and delivery models, expanding cloud programs across different business units, and deploying new capabilities (example: robotics, machine learning) to address business needs. Customer’s business and IT teams embracing technology shifts (example: move from on-premise to SaaS, moving from waterfall to agile, rearchitecting from monolithic to microservices) require changes in their governance models, new skills, and evolved organization structures. Enterprise customers ask AWS to provide guidance on people, process aspects in addition to technology (example: “How should I structure my organization?”, “What kinds of roles will I need?”, “Can you help me build a DevOps organization?”, “I am bought into AWS, now how do I accelerate migrations to AWS aligned with my established enterprise standards”).

Enterprise Transformation Architects come from a background of 1) having extensive experience in influencing (driving) transformation efforts with business and IT leaders and executive teams; 2) a deep technical background (example: understanding of IT portfolios, enterprise platforms, enterprise architectures); and 3) a strong understanding of risk, compliance and security. Through our partner firms, you will engage with customers in a pre-sales capacity, analyze their capabilities along seven key pillars: People, Business, Governance, Application Development, Operations, Platform and Security and provide assessments with detailed results of the analysis. You will not only earn ‘trusted advisor’ status with influencer firm Managing Partners, but also our joint customer’s executive staff (CIO, CTO), devising a long-term roadmap and plan of action to cultivate the desired capabilities to evolve the organization, positioning AWS professional services and/or APN partners to help deliver on the desired capabilities. Results for the customer will be a vision that increases their ability to innovate on the AWS platform, by modernizing their people-skills, process and technology footprint and accelerating the incorporation of the AWS platform. Enterprise Transformation Architects are responsible for contributing to the best practices from enterprise transformations that have positively impacted our customers’ business agility, helping build reusable assets and tools to help scale the function globally within the AWS SA team. Lastly, they provide thought leadership by publishing content and delivering sessions on Enterprise Transformation at AWS and Enterprise events.

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Key job responsibilities
· Engaging with management consulting or strategic influencer firms Managing Partners and C-level executives at large enterprise customers to define and execute on Enterprise cloud transformation strategies
· Educate C-level executives, technical and business professionals on organizational transformation challenges and best practices
· Identifying motivators for cloud adoption and unblocking enterprise challenges
· Assist in defining enterprise operating models for AWS and driving buy-in across complex organization structures
· Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing transformation feasibility
· Introducing mechanisms for wide scale adoption such as Cloud and DevOps enablement functions, Centers of Excellence, Enterprise reskilling models
· Develop and deliver workshops to educate leaders and identify/address short term blockers and build action plans (example: Cloud Adoption Framework workshop, Cloud Maturity Assessment Workshop, Executive Visioning Workshop)
· Defining and executing on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (AWS Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners)
· Hire and develop (mentor) newly on-boarded Enterprise Transformation Architects and Solution Architects
· Provide thought leadership by publishing content and delivering public facing sessions on Enterprise Transformation at AWS and Enterprise events

About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re 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.

Inclusive and Diverse Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Houston, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI (particularly Amazon Bedrock, Amazon-Q)

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