Solutions Architect, Public Sector Financial Services

Amazon Web Services

Toronto

On-site

CAD 115,000 - 167,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to design and deliver cloud solutions for public sector financial services customers in Canada. You will partner with sales, customers and AWS technical teams to craft flexible, resilient architectures and advocate for customers’ needs.

The role requires deep knowledge of the Canadian government cloud landscape, security requirements, and ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences.

Qualifications

5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in software or Internet industries.
4+ years in technology domains such as software development, cloud, systems engineering, or security.
2+ years in design, implementation, or consulting for applications and infrastructures.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver advanced cloud architectures for public sector financial services customers.
Partner with customers, sales, and technical teams to craft flexible, resilient solutions.
Explain AWS services and architectures to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders.
Advise customers on best practices for cloud adoption and migration.

Skills

IT development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Tools

AWS technologies

DevOps practices

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Solutions Architect to help design and deliver advanced cloud computing solutions to public sector Financial Services customers. You will be a member of a dynamic team, bringing the latest in disruptive, cutting‑edge cloud computing technology to solve difficult and impactful challenges within this vertical. You will be a key member of the business development and sales team and part of the larger AWS Worldwide Public Sector team.

As a Solutions Architect, you will partner with customers, sales, and other AWS technical teams to craft highly flexible and resilient architectures that address customer mission challenges. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud solutions. You will seek out opportunities to broaden the use of AWS across customer organizations.

The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the Canadian Government cloud computing landscape, application modernization initiatives, and security requirements. They also have customer‑facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS within a customer's environment, present cloud computing concepts and architectures to diverse audiences, and drive discussions with technical and non‑technical customer personnel at all levels of an organization.

Key Responsibilities

Learning about AWS services and solutions
Advancing the sales cycle by explaining AWS services and solutions to customers
Advocating on behalf of customers for new features and capabilities
Designing and delivering advanced cloud computing architectures tailored to public sector financial services customers
Partnering with customers, sales, and technical teams to craft flexible, resilient solutions
Presenting cloud concepts and architectures to diverse audiences including technical and non‑technical personnel

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Preferred Qualifications