Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. As a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, you will have the exciting opportunity to assist and shape the future of a high potential set of digitally native customers. You will partner with various AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
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In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a set of digital native customers. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build a mindshare and broad use of AWS.
Key Job Responsibilities
1. As a key member of the sales team, ensure success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform in partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS.
2. Solutions Architects own the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS and make recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
3. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
4. Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS.
5. Capture and share best-practice knowledge among the AWS solutions architect community.
A day in the life
In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to make an impact. You'll enjoy working with dynamic customers. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse set of customers.
Minimum Requirements
1. 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
2. 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
3. 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.
4. 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
5. Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.
6. Experience working with end user or developer communities.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.
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