AMS Cloud Architect III, AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Amazon Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect III to lead strategic discussions with enterprise customers and guide complex migrations to AWS.

You will partner with the AWS Business Development team to shape adoption in key industry verticals and drive architectural excellence in customer engagements. The role requires deep cloud engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable cloud solutions, including well-architected

Qualifications

• Deep technical skill in infrastructure, software architecture and cloud computing.
• Customer-facing skills from presales or consultancy roles.
• Ability to think strategically about solutions to business, product, and technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Support the AWS Business development team to help formulate a strategy to help the adoption of AWS within the focus industry verticals.
• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Help educate enterprise customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Help provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs and whitepapers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Customer facing

Strategic thinking

Tech trends awareness

Tools

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Job description

AMS Cloud Architect III, AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Job ID: 10567039 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Amazon is continuously striving to be the most customer-centric company in the world. AWS have been helping over one million customers in over 190 countries, from Airbnb to GE, to deliver flexibility, scalability and reliability across their organizations. Behind this success is exceptionally talented, bright and driven individuals who work hard, have fun and make history.

In your role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services within strategic Enterprise accounts. You will represent AWS in face-to-face meetings and own the overall technical relationship between AWS and the customer.

This role will engage with enterprise customers across a broad range of industry verticals including Travel and Transportation, Tourism and Leisure, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Business Services. Technology trends in these verticals include IoT, Big Data, Analytics, AI/ML, Serverless and traditional cloud migrations of compute, storage and associated applications.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate:

• Deep technical skill in infrastructure, software architecture and cloud computing
• Customer facing skills, ideally gained in presales or consultancy roles, allowing them to represent AWS in discussions with senior personnel
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about solutions to business, product, and technical challenges.
• Awareness of technology trends and how they impact the way businesses consume IT

Key job responsibilities

• Support the AWS Business development team to help formulate a strategy to help the adoption of AWS within the focus industry verticals.
• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services following the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Help educate enterprise customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Help provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs and whitepapers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

About the team

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