AMS Cloud Architect III, AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a senior AWS Solutions Architect to shape strategy and drive broad adoption of AWS in enterprise accounts. You will own the technical relationship, lead deep architectural discussions, and guide migrations for complex, cloud-based solutions across multiple verticals.

You will engage with senior customers, translate business needs into technical designs, and contribute to customer-facing publications while building strong cloud advocates within client teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience.
• 5+ years of database (SQL/NoSQL/Hadoop/Spark/Kafka/Kinesis) experience.
• 7+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions.
• 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience.
• 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent) experience.
• 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex projects.
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience.
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the AWS Business development team to help formulate a strategy to drive adoption in focus industry verticals.
• Guide customers to ensure success in building and migrating applications following Well-Architected Framework.
• Educate enterprise customers on AWS value, and participate in deep architectural discussions.
• Provide training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or using AWS.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs and whitepapers.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals to enable cloud advocacy.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering, and support.

Skills

Technical architecture

Cloud computing

Database technologies

Serverless architectures

OO programming

Pre-sales / consulting

Customer-facing PM

Security & compliance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Description

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

This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

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

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

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.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience

• 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience

• 7+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience

• 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience

• 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience

• 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience

• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience

• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience

Preferred Qualifications

• degree in advanced technology, or AWS Professional level certification

• Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies

• Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR

• Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments

• Experience communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences in pre-sales environments

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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