Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS, State and Local Government & Higher Education
About the role
Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing State and Local Government & Higher Education business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, and AWS CloudFront) and Generative AI Services (Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform; and being a subject matter expert on security as it relates to customer applications and services.
- Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world class sales and business development team.
- Lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community.
- In partnership with the Sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
- As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS (i.e Dev Days or Immersion Days).
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect community.
- Contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white papers.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, Service Teams and Support.
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.
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
- Experience working with end user or developer communities.
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
Skills
- Technical presentation experience – White board, small and large group presentations.
- Technical – Web Services development/deployment experience, cloud computing.
- Operational – Web site/services operations, management, and security.
- Ability to travel 30%.
Pay
USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage).
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off.
- Parental leave.