Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Startups

Amazon.com, Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startup Solutions Architecture team partners with startups to design scalable, secure cloud architectures aligned with business goals. You will translate customer needs into prescriptive guidance, craft reference architectures, and educate customers through workshops and content creation.

You will collaborate across AWS and partner ecosystems, evangelize cloud capabilities, and continuously learn to grow startup expertise. A fast-paced, innovative environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, math or equivalent or relevant experience.
• Experience in IT development, implementation or consulting in software or internet industries.
• Experience in design, implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to accelerate projects and recommend architectures aligned to business outcomes.
• Act as trusted advisor to startups, guiding value with AWS and partners.
• Capture voice of the customer to influence AWS feature roadmaps and create technical content.
• Educate customers about AWS technology through workshops, meetups and presentations.

Skills

Technical communication

Cloud architectures

Public speaking

Startup experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Experience in professional field or military

Tools

SAP systems

Infrastructure architecture

Networking

Job description

Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with startups of different stages. Supporting the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, they work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology. Solutions Architects also have broader impact at scale, taking a supporting role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices. In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to produce cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will be learning something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.,

Key Responsibilities

• As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
• You operate as a trusted advisor for startups. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide. You work backwards from their priorities and find inventive ways to add value with solutions utilizing AWS and its Partners' technology.
• You capture and share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for AWS. You use your customer understanding to participate the creation or updates of technical content and reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
• Evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and cloud architectures. You are a builder with genuine curiosity about how technology can support your customers' business models and objectives. You are a lifetime learner that develops areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customers' outcomes. You are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, where you will be positively challenged and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture.

A day in the life The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. In a typical week you will meet multiple customers and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions. You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS. Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you'll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers' business problems. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving adoption of AWS technologies while bringing differentiated value to customers. This is a team dedicated to Startups, an important and growing subset of customers for AWS. Startups follow unique technology adoption patterns and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses, so you will be employing engagement strategies and programs tailored to their business needs and technical preferences.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build and scale their businesses. We're here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible - and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so. We are a group of technologists with varied backgrounds; from fresh graduates to ex-CTOs, all growing our skills and startup expertise, while working on cutting edge technology use-cases with some of the world's most innovative companies.

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.

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