Solutions Architect - NPO, Financial Investments Account Team

About the role

The AWS Solutions Architect — Named-Account Lead serves as the dedicated AWS technical advisor for a strategic customer in the AWS U.S. Nonprofits NFICU sub-vertical. This role involves leading the customer's AWS technical strategy across multiple engagement pillars including GenAI Full-Stack, Cloud Migration, Professional Services, and Amazon Connect.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a Senior Account Executive and the broader account team to lead the account's AWS technical strategy.
• Lead architectural altitude across all of the customer's active AWS engagements.
• Apply the AWS GenAI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) + AI Development Life-Cycle (AIDLC) accelerator mechanism to move the customer's GenAI proof-of-concept work into production-launched outcomes.
• Partner deeply with AWS Professional Services on the customer's active ProServe engagements.
• Translate the customer's mission, regulatory environment, and operating model into AWS architectural decisions.
• Operate the Sales-SA partnership cadence with the account sales team.
• Drive opportunity-pipeline integrity on the customer's active engagements.
• Avoid administrative overhead so technical-advisor hours go to customer outcomes.
• Contribute to the AWS NPO Technical Field Community (TFC).
• Travel approximately 25-35% to the customer's headquarters for in-person executive briefings, customer workshops, on-site architecture reviews, and joint working sessions.

Requirements

Key requirements include:

• 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.
• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
• 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.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include:

• 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.

Skills

Skills required for this role include:

• Deep AWS technical breadth.
• Sensibility to operate inside a mission-driven financial-services organization.
• Technical advisor patience.
• Ability to translate regulatory environment and operating model into AWS architectural decisions.
• Strong technical advisor and customer advisor instincts.
• Ability to operate at director-, VP-, and C-level technical-advisor altitude alongside the Account Executive.
• Ability to operate the Sales-SA partnership cadence with the account sales team.
• Ability to drive opportunity-pipeline integrity on the customer's active engagements.
• Ability to reduce administrative overhead so technical-advisor hours go to customer outcomes.
• Ability to contribute to the AWS NPO Technical Field Community (TFC).
• Ability to travel approximately 25-35% to the customer's headquarters for in-person executive briefings, customer workshops, on-site architecture reviews, and joint working sessions.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Full-time position with flexible remote work options.