Solutions Architect, Greenfield, Automotive & Manufacturing

About the role

AWS Solutions Architects partner with customers to design and build scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures. You will collaborate with AWS Sales and other teams to address customer business challenges, accelerate AWS adoption, and act as a trusted customer advocate. You'll help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, provide migration strategy advice, and drive successful business outcomes across enterprise customers. You will have the opportunity to shape and execute a strategy to build deep adoption and broad use of AWS within your enterprise customers by mobilizing resources within AWS and working with our extensive partner network.

Key job responsibilities

• New customer acquisition of Automotive & Manufacturing customers
• Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders as a trusted technical advisor
• Participate in deep architectural and design discussions to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and proof of concepts
• In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
• Build deep relationships with business and senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Travel is mostly regional, and is expected to be 15-20%

Basic qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Pay

• USA, IL, Chicago: 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
• USA, MI, Detroit: 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
• USA, MN, Minneapolis: 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas: 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 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 including 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
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits

About the team

Diverse Experiences: 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.

Why AWS: 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.

Inclusive Team Culture: AWS 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.

Mentorship & Career Growth: 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.

Work/Life Balance: 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.

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