Banking Sr Solutions Architect, Worldwide Financial Services

About the role

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Financial Services team is looking for a Banking industry senior solution architect to join our fast-paced team and help drive worldwide AWS adoption in banking globally.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the Worldwide Banking team in helping to drive AWS marketing, sales, and technical strategies for the Banking industry
• Coach sales teams on AWS services relevant to banking customers
• Understand the unique technical requirements of banking customers, and work closely with the internal teams to guide the direction of the adoption of AWS services for our largest and most complex customers
• Work directly with customers to accelerate their business outcomes and recommend best-practice cloud architectures in line with their long-term business needs.
• Drive technical solutions discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex technical challenges and use your knowledge to craft scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures.
• Define and execute on the strategy by engaging highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
• Act as a thought leader in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
• Scope and own customer engagements, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Work backwards from your customer's business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS technology
• Serve as a key technical member of the Solutions Architecture team through influencing decision makers across multiple domains to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform which align to long-term business goals

Qualifications

• 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 migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients