Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect - Greenfield Projects

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 131,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Houston seeks a Solutions Architect to design scalable cloud architectures and guide customers from initial design through deployment, collaborating with AWS Sales and other teams to drive adoption.

You will advocate best practices for migrating workloads to the cloud, work with enterprise customers to translate business goals into technical architectures, and travel regionally to engage with clients.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting.
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders as a trusted technical advisor.
• Participate in deep architectural and design discussions to create world‑class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Author and contribute to AWS customer‑facing publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts.
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
• Build deep relationships with business and senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
• Travel is mostly regional, and is expected to be 15-20%

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Houston seeks a Solutions Architect to design scalable cloud architectures and guide customers from initial design through deployment, collaborating with AWS Sales and other teams to drive adoption.

You will advocate best practices for migrating workloads to the cloud, work with enterprise customers to translate business goals into technical architectures, and travel regionally to engage with clients.