Solutions Architect, AGS-EMEA-Field-SMB-SA

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Solutions Architect, where you'll empower SMB customers to innovate and expand using AWS cloud solutions. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with top technical minds, providing exceptional design guidance and thought leadership to help businesses modernize their applications. Your expertise will drive customer success by crafting tailored solutions that enhance efficiency, security, and performance. With a focus on work-life balance and an inclusive culture, this opportunity promises both professional growth and the chance to make a significant impact in the cloud computing space.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Mentorship Programs

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Career Development Resources

Work-Life Balance Support

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in cloud computing and software development.
• Strong architectural design skills with a focus on AWS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and modernize applications on the AWS platform for SMB customers.
• Provide architectural guidance and conduct training sessions for clients.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Software Development

Systems Engineering

Security

Networking

Data & Analytics

Architectural Design

Technical Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

DevOps Tools

Job description

Solutions Architect, AGS-EMEA-Field-SMB-SA

Job ID: 2949756 | AWS EMEA SARL (Israel Branch)

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, architects and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS you will work directly with customers. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to work backwards from these customers' needs and help them gain competitive edge using AWS. As an experienced technologist and key member of the Account team you will help influence customers' architectural choices across broad use cases involving security, compute, storage networking as well as advanced scenarios involving serverless, analytics, GenAI and AI/ML.

As a part of the role, you will provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community. You will also gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

Key job responsibilities

1. As a key member of the SA team, ensure success in designing, building and modernizing applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.
2. Provide architectural guidance and recommendations on running applications efficiently and reliably on AWS platform.
3. Demonstrated communication skills and ability to convey complex ideas to a non-technical audience with an ability to connect technology with measurable business value.
4. Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while crafting solutions that are designed for deployment in the cloud.
5. Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as blogs, white papers, and proof of concepts.
6. Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS cloud.
7. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
8. In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute strategies to achieve business outcomes through the adoption of the AWS platform.
9. Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
10. Capture and share leading practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community.

A day in the life
You will have the opportunity to help SMB customers accelerate their cloud implementation to modernize their business on AWS. Working with these customers, you will help them transform existing workloads by designing modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, security, and more using both native and partner solutions. Our teams focus on understanding customer key business drivers as well as the existing application architecture(s) to deliver a technical recommendation to the customer with a goal of designing a robust cloud architecture that can scale as their business requires.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.