Description
Would you like to engage with technology partners to help them leverage AWS cloud technologies? Can you work equally well with executives and technologists? Do you like helping others to solve challenging technical problems? Do you have experience defining and delivering technology strategies across enterprise landscapes?
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring Solution Architects to our APJ Public Sector team to work with our AWS Partners, helping them to accelerate our customers' cloud migration and adoption journeys and support the development of new solutions on cloud, leveraging cloud native services and approaches.
Partner Solution Architects own the technical engagement with partners, developing deep expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad know-how of best practices when constructing applications and services using AWS. Partner Solution Architects help develop the technical capabilities of partners so they can be successful in building and selling their cloud-based solutions to Public Sector customers. Working with AWS Partners is a team effort that will require influence and coordination with many stakeholders, including Partner Development Managers, Business Development, Professional Services and customer account teams to ensure joint customer and partner success.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS within a partner's environment and drive discussions with IT leaders and senior executives. They should also have a technical background that enables them to dive deep and give guidance to developers and architects. They should be equally comfortable talking Storage and Networking with the VP of Infrastructure, continuous deployment details with the DevOps team, TCO with the CFO, and cloud strategy with the CIO. Having a firm grasp of technical fundamentals and the ability to quickly learn complex new technologies is a key success factor, along with the ability to think strategically about business and technical challenges, best practices and trade-offs.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about:
Working with modern large-scale business-critical IT environments and architectures
Engaging with business and IT leaders to define and execute on cloud strategies
Owning the technical engagement with partners both at senior and working level, helping them to ensure a timely and successful delivery of business value to customers
Providing technical and architectural guidance with solutions and best practices that will enable partners to build and scale their business on the AWS platform
Driving technical enablement for partners by creating whitepapers, conducting presentations, demos and hands-on technical workshops
Assessing technical feasibility by building hands-on proof of concepts where required and by identifying dependencies, caveats and best practices
Identifying repeatable patterns and architectures and sharing best-practice knowledge within the solution architect community
Collaborating with business, development, infrastructure, security, operations and other teams to ensure successful outcomes and influencing future iterations of the AWS platform
Continuously improving their technical skills and business acumen
Understanding the AWS customers and industry verticals
This role provides a unique opportunity to drive transformational change with partners in their journey to the cloud. If you are a problem solver with a broad and deep technical-skills and have the ability to drive technical initiatives and cloud migration projects with partners, you will enjoy this role.
About the team
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
