Principal Solutions Architect

Job ID: 2809853 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.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 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect team partners with customers to design and build some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions. AWS Solutions Architects collaborate with AWS Sales and other AWS teams to help address customer business challenges and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.As a trusted customer advocate, Solutions Architects help 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.You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your enterprise customers, and you will do this by mobilizing resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.Key job responsibilities

Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts.In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.Travel is mostly regional, and is expected to be 15-20%.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent.Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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