Telco Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

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AWS
Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
AWS
Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • The ability to connect technology with measurable business value while assessing risks, balancing trade-offs, and encouraging risk-tasking to maximize your customer's business value of AWS is critical to a solutions architect
  • You should also have a demonstrated ability to think long-term about business, product, and technical outcomes
  • Role requires domestic and international (mainly Europe) travel up to 30%
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
  • Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
  • Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
  • Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
  • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Desirable

  • Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
  • Experience working with end user or developer communities
  • Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
  • Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
  • Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
  • Experience working with customers in regulated industries

What the job involves

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a technical leader to help global telecommunications service providers and partners transform their businesses with AWS cloud and generative AI technologies
  • AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector
  • The problem domains are diverse: 5G monetization, network function virtualization, digital customer journeys, OSS/BSS transformation, mobile edge computing, hyperscale data and cybersecurity
  • At your disposal is the breadth of AWS, including GenAI, classical AI/ML, edge computing, IoT, and data analytics
  • As part of the Telecommunications Solutions Architecture team, you will collaborate with customers, internal AWS teams, and AWS partners to deliver solutions to the unique challenges faced by telecom customers
  • You will be the single-threaded owner of the AWS technology strategy for your customer(s) and account team(s) to drive AWS adoption
  • Our team experiences high levels of collaboration, lots of multi-tasking, and often course corrections or new ideas that mean adaptability is key
  • We find creative and scalable solutions to our customers’ difficult problems, and we own delivering those outcomes to the customer
  • We are also a geographically-distributed team, which means you will need to possess a high bias for taking action without immediate team consensus
  • Solutions Architects work on the most complex customer challenges and opportunities
  • They have a leading role in developing both the strategy and the team itself
  • They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to speed-up innovation across their customer segment
  • Externally, they are recognized thought leaders and influence the strategy of our customers
  • Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team
  • In this role, your creativity will link technology to tangible solutions, with the opportunity to invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases
  • You will take a leading role in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences)
  • This role is within the EMEA Telco organization and you would be working with large Telco customers

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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