Solutions Architect, Cross Industry

• Do you love tackling new business challenges using cutting edge technology?
• Are you curious by nature and enjoy experimentation to create innovative solutions?
• Do you want to work somewhere in which you can collaborate and share ideas to enable technology adoption at pace and at scale?

About the Role

AWS Solutions Architects are trusted advisors to our customers, helping them solve some of their largest business challenges by designing and advising on some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient solutions in the world. Being a thought leader who creates and presents content you will test traditional thinking by pushing the boundaries for your customers to dream and deliver beyond what they think is possible. You will have the opportunity to partner with customers early in their cloud journey and help them scale further bringing visible and measurable impact in their growth ambitions in non-linear ways, using AWS as building blocks.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Customers are looking for strategic partners to help them thrive in rapidly changing business contexts. As a solutions architect, you will have opportunities to influence customers' cloud journey right from the start.
2. You will have a chance to influence architectural decisions to help customers adopt AWS cloud in a more reliable and secure way while at the same time helping the customers realize tangible business value from cloud adoption.
3. Most importantly, as a Trusted Advisor, you will provide customers with technical insight, technology roadmap, and right technical choices to transform IT in rapidly changing environments.

A day in the life:

In this role, your technical depth, business aptitude, and ability to steer technology discussions at all levels will enable you to shape the customer journey. Your thought leadership, ability to look beyond the technology, and more holistically at the value technology creates for our customers, is crucial to your success.

After joining our team, you will be provided with a ramp-up plan and a mentor to ensure you get off to a good start. After that we will ask you to dive deeply into your customer's business and technology situations and help them identify which of their issues and goals can be best served by adopting AWS cloud. We will also ask you to enable the customers to be successful in their cloud adoption by answering their technical questions, removing technical blockers they encounter, delivering hands-on workshops, and providing architectural guidance.

About the team:

You will be part of a team of very supportive people who will help you be successful. This team is for people with Builder mentality who are self-driven, willing to take Ownership of things and see them through, able to Earn Trust of our customers and their colleagues by delivering on their commitments.

Minimum Requirements:

1. 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
2. Strong verbal and written communication skills (Presentation for internal/external events, White boarding)
3. Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
4. Passion for evangelizing and presenting technical concepts to developers, IT management
5. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
6. Experience architecting, migrating or transforming customer requirements to the cloud
7. Experience in large migration project or distributed infrastructure design/implementation/consulting
8. Experience in Agile Project Management, DevOps, ITIL methodology