Senior Storage Specialist Solution Architect , GFS Specialist Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Storage Specialist Solutions Architect for the Global Financial Services team in New York. You will serve as the SME for AWS storage, designing sophisticated architectures and accelerating adoption of AWS services for enterprise customers.

You will partner with field Solution Architects to guide engagements, create reference architectures, white papers, and presentations, and help customers migrate complex workloads to AWS with security-focused, cost-efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS storage services and architectures.
• Ability to translate customer needs into technical designs.
• Strong communication skills for internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for accounts and customers.
• Represent the voice of the customer to influence roadmap and features.
• Provide advanced technical guidance to unblock critical business challenges.
• Design storage and data strategies with technical depth and business context.
• Share best practices via blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and events.
• Collaborate with Sales to define go-to-market technical components and initiatives.
• Develop and support a global internal AWS technical community.
• Create field enablement materials to help the broader SA population integrate AWS solutions.

Skills

Storage expertise

AWS services

Cloud architecture

Public speaking

Job description

Description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Storage Specialist Solutions Architect to join our Global Financial Services (GFS) Specialist team. In this role, you will work with customers, introduce new technologies, and adopt new solutions. In addition, you will be responsible for running technical go-to-market initiatives, surfacing customers insights to the product teams, and providing thought leadership to customers and partners.

We're seeking a Storage Solutions Architect for our GFS Specialists team who will serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in designing sophisticated customer solutions. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with customers to enable large-scale implementations and accelerate adoption of advanced AWS services. You'll partner with field Solution Architects to provide guidance on customer engagements, while creating white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations that empower customers to fully utilize AWS capabilities.

Our Specialist Solutions Architects are recognized as technical visionaries who champion emerging technologies both conceptually and architecturally. They play an instrumental role in advancing cloud computing adoption within the Enterprise space. These individuals think innovatively to deliver results and design solutions that are cost-efficient, mission-aligned, and security-focused. As part of our team, you'll employ a customer-centric approach to develop AWS storage solutions and orchestrate the migration of complex workloads to the AWS cloud.

Key job responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for our Account teams and customers.


• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.


• Provide advanced technical knowledge to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.


• You will have the technical depth and business experience to deploy storage and data strategies,


• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.


• Partner with Sales Specialist teams to define the technical components of best in class Go to Market concepts, solutions, and initiatives.


• Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.


• Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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Work/Life Balance

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