Senior Solutions Architect

Who you are

• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals

What the job involves

• Your role as a Solutions Architects helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud
• You’ll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through your passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions
• As a trusted customer advocate, you are responsible for guiding organizations in adopting advanced cloud-based solutions and migrating their workloads to the cloud
• You'll be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to build mindshare and increase adoption of AWS
• You should be able to interact and communicate effectively with various teams at AWS, including services, marketing, and professional services, while also representing your own team to executive management
• Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex customer requirements, making technical trade-offs and evaluating architectures for scale while ensuring solutions are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant
• Build and maintain relationships with customer senior leaders, understanding their business objectives and technical challenges to influence strategic direction and ensure technology decisions will meet long-term business outcomes
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences, creating technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others while harmonizing discordant views to build consensus
• Lead technical discussions and dive deeply into technical details with customer teams across application architecture, system design, and implementation considerations, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities
• Drive effective customer feedback gathering, distilling and translating feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams while contributing to reference designs and reusable artifacts