Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon

Telco & Media

$138.2-239k

AWS
Linux
Windows
Unix
Senior level
Denver
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

$138.2-239k

AWS
Linux
Windows
Unix
Senior level
Denver

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 ideal candidate has a passion for cloud computing with a proven track record in technology consulting, solutions architecture, or pre-sales engineering
  • You must be broadly competent across infrastructure, security, DevOps, databases, app development, analytics, and deep expertise in at least two areas
  • The ability to connect technology to measurable business value is critical
  • Strong interpersonal skills are required to effectively communicate with all customer stakeholders from developers to CXOs
  • Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit to have fun while making history
  • Excited to work closely with enterprise customers on their digital transformation journeys
  • Expertise in designing and architecting large-scale, distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services or equivalent public cloud platforms
  • Fluently communicate with customers at C-level, stakeholders, boardrooms and peers, evolving to the “trusted advisor”
  • Ability to think strategically about complex technical and business challenges
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
  • Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures
  • Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients

Desirable

  • Advanced Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or Information Technology
  • 5+ Years of experience working with Machine Learning and Data Science communities
  • 3+ years of experience working with AWS ML technologies
  • Propose solutions and strategies to tackle business challenges (internal/external) and mitigate business risks
  • Previous experience architecting, building or operating solutions build on AWS
  • AWS certifications
  • Managed Large Customer engagements
  • Ability to build demos, hands-on in the cloud
  • Experience writing and publishing technical whitepapers or patents

What the job involves

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking experienced and motivated Enterprise Solutions Architects to partner with some of the world's largest Enterprise, Telecom, and Media customers
  • In this highly technical and customer-facing role, you will engage directly with customers to understand their business drivers, assess technology needs, and design reliable, cost-effective, and scalable cloud architectures on AWS
  • As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud solutions and provide strategic guidance on migrating existing workloads to the cloud
  • You will build deep relationships with senior technical leaders to enable them as cloud advocates within their companies
  • A core responsibility is educating customers on the value proposition of AWS through training sessions, deep architectural discussions, and cloud acceleration programs
  • You will drive revenue growth by formulating and executing sales strategies in partnership with the AWS Sales team
  • This involves mobilizing internal AWS resources and the partner ecosystem to ensure successful application/service builds and migrations onto AWS
  • Additionally, you will capture and share best practice knowledge across AWS, including authoring customer-facing content like whitepapers and blog posts
  • Build deep relationships to become a customers' trusted advisor for their critical workloads in support of their digital transformation/journey to the cloud
  • Drive business engagements to develop technical strategies for complex enterprise systems' migration to the cloud
  • Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure they design solutions for resiliency, security, and cost optimization
  • Collaborate across the AWS teams to drive and shape new solutions and mechanisms for repeatable customer business outcomes
  • Represent and promote AWS within the Telecommunications, Enterprise, and Service Provider communities
  • Assist Partners in designing and implementing large-scale network transformations programs and solutions
  • Capture and share best-practice knowledge for deploying, running and managing solutions on AWS
  • Contribute to AWS internal and customer-facing publications such as white-papers and blogs as a means of scaling your knowledge
  • Influence cloud services roadmap, by acting as a liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and support to address customer needs
  • In this role, your typical day will involve partnering with customers, AWS Sales teams, and internal AWS groups to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that solve customer business challenges and accelerate their adoption of AWS services
  • You will link your technical expertise to tangible solutions, defining and creating cloud-native reference architectures
  • A core part of your role is acting as a trusted customer advocate, helping organizations understand best practices for cloud-based solutions
  • You will shape strategies to build mindshare and broaden the use of AWS across customer organizations, utilizing your ability to think strategically about business, products and technical complexities
  • Your creativity will be channeled into developing new architectural patterns, best practices and technical content to share across AWS in the form of whitepapers, code samples, blog posts and more
  • You will evangelize AWS technology through workshops, user groups, public speaking engagements, online videos and conferences
  • Your day will strike a balance between customer meetings, working on solutions, continuous learning and knowledge sharing
  • The AWS Solutions Architecture team provides an open environment with self-paced learning, instructor-led training, hands-on projects, job shadowing and mentoring opportunities to expand your AWS services expertise
  • You'll bring an insatiable curiosity to understand how technology works and achieve outcomes that delight customers
  • The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success
  • AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services

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 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
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

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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