Sr. Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect, AGS US Specialist SA

About the role

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. They provide deep technical expertise in specific domains to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide customers with deep technical expertise in your domain to advance adoption of AWS products in service to customer goals.
• Collaborate with specialist, sales, marketing, and products teams to ideate around your customers’ most challenging business problems.
• Act as a trusted advisor to line of business and C-suite leaders.
• Lead architectural reviews and workshops to advance your customer’s technical objectives.
• Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc.
• Participate as a leader in AWS technical communities.
• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Provide data and anecdotes on what is working and what is not back to the larger specialist community and product teams.
• Act as primary point of contact for urgent customer issues in your technical specialty.

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.
• Understanding of open table formats, especially Iceberg.
• Understanding of data foundation principles supporting agentic systems.