Amazon Web Services

Solutions Architect, Solution Architect, Cloud Computing

SeniorSolutionsArchitect

$154–208k Chicago, Illinois, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Skills: Cloud architecture, Customer solutions, AWS technology. Build technical relationships with customers. Operate as trusted advisor”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate customer success; Increase AWS adoption

Industry & Context.

Solutions Architect, Solution Architect, Cloud Computing
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Up to 30% travel

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years technology domain experience, 3+ years applications/infrastructures experience

Nice to Have

AWS solutions architecting/operating experience, Technical sales role experience, Communicate technical/non-technical audiences

What You'll Do.

Build technical relationships with customers

Operate as trusted advisor

Ensure customers maximize cloud value

Manage overall technical relationship

Make security recommendations

Make cost recommendations

Make performance recommendations

Make reliability recommendations

Make operational efficiency recommendations

Accelerate mission-critical projects

Represent customer needs internally

Inform AWS feature roadmap

Link technology to tangible solutions

Define cloud-native reference architectures

Invent cloud-native reference architectures

Participate in best practices creation

Create technical content

Share technical content

Create new reference architectures

Share new reference architectures

Evangelize AWS technology

Educate on AWS technology

Educate on industry trends

Understand cloud best practices

Provide migration strategy advice

Provide cloud-native service advice

Drive successful business outcomes

Educate customers on cloud

Train customers on cloud

Design cloud solutions

Build cloud solutions

Guide organizations in adopting solutions

Migrate workloads to cloud

Develop adoption strategy

Implement adoption strategy

Interact with AWS teams

Communicate with AWS teams

Represent team to management

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; AWS service teams; AWS marketing teams; AWS professional services

Communication Scope

Executive presentations; Technical communication

Full Job Description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow. As a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey. You will manage the overall technical relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging, mission-critical projects. Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS features. In this role, you will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences). This role will include up to 30% travel. Key job responsibilities Your role as a Solutions Architect helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud and innovating with cloud-native services. You’ll help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through your passion for educating, training, des

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