Principal ProServe Cloud Architect, US - Financial Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced ProServe Cloud Architect (PCA) to help customers understand their technical requirements and business objectives, design tailored cloud solutions, and provide technical expertise throughout the customer's cloud journey.
About the role
As a ProServe Cloud Architect, you will be a key player in the sales process, creating and leading solution designs to address customer business outcomes (CBO). You will act as the conduit between ProServe Account Executives and Delivery Teams, ensuring proposed solutions are realistic, achievable, and optimized to maximize CBOs. You will serve as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions. Additionally, you will share knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts.
Responsibilities
- Design complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions, estimates, and proposals to deliver customer business outcomes (CBOs).
- Provide technical guidance and best practices during the sales and implementation phases.
- Collaborate with Account Executives and Shared Delivery Teams to ensure proposed solutions are realistic and achievable.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Share knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts.
- Translate technical concepts into business value for customers.
Requirements
- Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA).
- Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
Qualifications
- Degree in advanced technology or AWS Professional level certification.
- Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape.
- Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies.
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR.
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
- Experience managing executive customer relationships and key business stakeholders.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
- Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments.
About the team
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that helps customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We collaborate with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives, providing assistance through a collection of offerings that help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for supplemental life plans).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
- Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Pay
- USA, CA, Mountain View: $210,200 - $284,300 USD annually
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $210,200 - $284,300 USD annually
- USA, IL, Chicago: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York: $201,000 - $272,000 USD annually
- USA, TX, Austin: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, TX, Dallas: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $182,800 - $247,300 USD annually