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Sr. WW Specialist SA - Compute, Core Services

Amazon Web Services, Inc., Mercer Island, Washington, United States, 98040


Sr. WW Specialist SA - Compute, Core Services

Job ID: 2697394 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. 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 part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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.As an Efficient Compute Solutions Architect (SA), you will partner with engineering, product management, business development, and technical field teams to drive the enablement and adoption of Graviton-based Instances. You will also be part of broader team initiatives that will include supporting customer adoption of Spot instances. Your day-to-day will include authoring white papers, blog posts, reference architectures, and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of Efficient Compute architectures. As a Solutions Architect, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to redefine how customers create and consume efficient applications. As a technical expert and thought leader in the specialist team, you will work with major customers across a broad array of engagements and implement cutting-edge technologies.Key Job Responsibilities

Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM (Go To Market) teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.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.Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts, solutions, and initiatives.Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications5+ years of technical customer facing experience5+ years of experience in software development and running Java workloads or as a Java Performance engineer.3+ years of experience with Container Services or Data and Analytics platforms (Spark, Trino, Flink)Experience managing Open Source projects and communities.History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprisesStrong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Understanding of low-level architectures and successful migration of applications from x86 to Graviton-based instances.Other modern programming languages (Python, C/C++, Go, .Net, Rust, etc), cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure.Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloudFamiliarity with common enterprise services and working knowledge of software development lifecycle tools and methodologiesExperience working within software development or Internet-related industriesAWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertiseComputer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desiredAmazon 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.

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