Senior Storage AI Specialist Solution Architect, AGS Specialist Solutions Architecture Team

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud.

About the role

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Storage Specialist Solutions Architect to join our Startups and SMB team. In this role, you'll serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in designing sophisticated customer storage solutions. You'll collaborate closely with customers to enable large-scale implementations and accelerate adoption of advanced AWS services, partner with field Solution Architects to provide guidance on customer engagements, and create white papers, blogs, reference architectures, and presentations that empower customers to fully utilize AWS capabilities.

Our Specialist Solutions Architects are recognized as technical visionaries who champion emerging technologies both conceptually and architecturally. They play an instrumental role in advancing cloud computing adoption within the Enterprise space. As part of our team, you'll employ a customer-centric approach to develop AWS storage solutions and orchestrate the migration of complex workloads to the AWS cloud.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert on AWS storage services for our Account teams and customers.
• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
• Provide advanced technical knowledge to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
• Deploy storage and data strategies with technical depth and business experience.
• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and public-speaking events (e.g., AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent).
• Partner with Sales Specialist teams to define the technical components of best-in-class Go-to-Market concepts, solutions, and initiatives.
• Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide.
• Create field enablement materials for the broader Solutions Architect population to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization.
• 7+ years of server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems experience.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed systems as they pertain to data storage and computing.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Our inclusive team culture values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Pay

• USA, CA, Santa Clara: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, IL, Chicago: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NJ, Jersey City: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Bellevue: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.