Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Startups, Life Sciences

$164,500 - $284,300/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Principal Solutions Architect for AWS Startups in Life Sciences is a pivotal role focused on assisting early-stage life sciences startups in leveraging AWS technology to innovate and grow. This position involves working closely with diverse customers in the life sciences sector, providing technical guidance, and establishing trusted relationships. The role emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs and advocating for the right AWS solutions to support their business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Help a diverse range of life sciences startups to adopt the right architecture at each part of their lifecycle
• Support startups in architecting scalable, reliable and secure solutions
• Support adoption of a broad range of AWS services to deliver business value and accelerate growth
• Support the evolution and roadmap of the AWS platform and services, connecting our engineering teams with our customers for feedback
• Establish and build technical relationships within the startup ecosystem, including accelerators, incubators and VCs
• Develop startup specific technical content, such as blog posts, sample code and solutions, to assist customers solve technical problems and reduce time-to-market

Requirements

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package
• Flexible working culture to support work-life balance
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Employee-led affinity groups fostering inclusion