Sr Solutions Architect, HCLS

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to join SMGS. You will partner with some of the world's largest companies to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services. In collaboration with account managers, you will assist in driving growth across a small set of global customers in your defined country. 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 mind-share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. 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. Ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
2. In partnership with the account management team, formulate and execute a strategy
3. 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
4. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
5. Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
6. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
7. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
8. Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

Minimum Requirements

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field
2. Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries; experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
3. Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
4. Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
5. Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
6. Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering)
7. Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
8. Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
9. Familiarity with common AI/ML and GenAI lifecycles