Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect — Strategic Impact

Amazon Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Sr. Solutions Architect to design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex enterprise requirements, balancing cost, security, and performance.

You will lead technical discussions with customer teams and partners, build relationships with senior leaders, and translate feedback into clear product and engineering requirements while traveling regionally.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex customer requirements, making technical trade-offs and evaluating architectures for scale while ensuring solutions are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost-optimized, and performant.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer senior leaders, understanding their business objectives and technical challenges to influence strategic direction and ensure technology decisions will meet long-term business outcomes.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences, creating technical content that is easily adopted and reusable by others while harmonizing discordant views to build consensus.
• Lead technical discussions and dive deeply into technical details with customer teams across application architecture, system design, and implementation considerations, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Drive effective customer feedback gathering, distilling and translating feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams while contributing to reference designs and reusable artifacts.

Skills

IT development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Sr. Solutions Architect to design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions for complex enterprise requirements, balancing cost, security, and performance.

You will lead technical discussions with customer teams and partners, build relationships with senior leaders, and translate feedback into clear product and engineering requirements while traveling regionally.