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Sr. WW Streaming Specialist SA, AWS WWSO Analytics

Amazon, San Francisco, CA, United States

Sr. WW Streaming Specialist SA, AWS WWSO Analytics

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA). As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist, and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

We are looking for a Streaming Data Specialist Solutions Architect to join our AWS team. This individual will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for helping customers leverage AWS managed services such as Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Data Firehose, and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink as well as self-managed Apache Kafka and Apache Flink running on AWS to solve their data management needs. As a trusted customer advocate, the specialist solutions architect will help organizations understand 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 organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. The ability to link technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect.

Key job responsibilities

  1. Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
  2. Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
  3. Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
  4. Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
  5. Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
  6. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
  • 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
  • 5+ years management of technical, customer-facing resources.
  • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
  • Experience working with end user or developer communities.
  • Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
  • Cloud Technology Certification (such as Solutions Architecture, Cloud Security Professional or Cloud DevOps Engineering).
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.

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