Solutions Architect, Amazon
Tech Acceleration Solutions
$118.2-204.3k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$118.2-204.3k
1001+ employees
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
- 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect Tech Acceleration Solutions (TAS) team partners with customers, and AWS Tech builders to design and build of some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures and solutions
- AWS TAS Solutions Architects build innovative solutions with Tech Builders to help customers accelerate their adoption of AWS cloud with minimal effort
- Solution Architects in the TAS organization collaborate with customers, AWS Global Sales and Tech builders, to minimize customers effort to use and integrate AWS Cloud services
- They apply business and technical skills to rapidly design well-architected solutions that help customers accelerate their adoption of AWS cloud
- They continuously benchmark to elevate the innovation, quality and delivery speed of their solution's
- They create, share and reuse artifacts to increase their and their stakeholders' productivity
- They are known for high velocity assessment, prioritization, and build of quality, innovative solution's
- They continuously seek out the voice of the customer to guide their prioritization, and assess and increase their effectiveness
- They actively contribute to solution design enhancement initiatives
- You will work with internal stakeholders to align priorities and collaborate with AWS field staff to identify and work on opportunities to improve productivity through building new tools, enablement content, and customer-facing artifacts including AWS Solutions, blog posts, and proofs of concept
- Your time will be a varied mix of all elements of solutions design and engineering including software development, testing, documentation, customer presentations and demos, and support
- Outside of the main responsibilities of the team, we have a strong culture of sharing knowledge; you will take part in regular show and tell activities and internal/external presentations about your areas of expertise
- We meet regularly for social events and team retrospectives; team cohesion is vital to the success of what we do
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
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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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