Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Business Applications

About the Role

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

We seek a passionate technologist who combines deep technical expertise with business acumen and excellent interpersonal skills to join our team of solutions architects working with business applications software vendors within the AWS Partner Network. This includes partners that provide a broad range of solutions across sales, marketing, operations, human resources, legal, customer experience, and other business functions. Our goal is to help these partners build, go-to-market and sell solutions leveraging AWS programs and capabilities across a range of cloud and AI services. We need a self-driven individual who thrives on continuous learning and working with the latest technologies to produce results that impact customers.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work with partners to deeply understand their business and technical needs.
• Develop solutions that make the best use of the AWS AI and cloud capabilities.
• Provide architectural guidance and recommendations on building applications efficiently and reliably on AWS.
• Influence solution providers in their development of strategies that will enable them to present their offering on AWS.
• Develop technical content, such as video, white papers and reference architectures, that can be used by our customers and partners to assist them in deploying cloud-based solutions.
• Capture and share best practices with our broader Solution Architect community.
• Share customer feedback to internal product management and engineering teams to help drive the future of AWS cloud.
• Scope each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well-defined objectives and success criteria.
• Collaborate with AWS field sales, training, and support teams to ensure partner success.

About the Team

The team consists of partner solution architects that help AWS's business applications software partners build products and services on top of AWS. We each possess deep expertise in one or more technical domains relevant to our partners. We constantly innovate on behalf of partners and are passionate about learning and building joint solutions with partners as well as communicating in public forums about the business impact of technology. We help each other, grow and learn together through our work.

A Day in the Life

A typical day might include meeting with technical product managers at AWS or with partners, collaborating with others to build and test demonstrations and proofs of concept, and recording or writing technical content such as blog posts and papers. It might also include reading research papers to stay abreast of changes in technology that affect your partners and getting hands-on with AWS every day.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise application architectures to meet business requirements in complex environments
• Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity
• Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platform

Compensation

USA, MA, Boston - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.