Principal Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Edge Services

$164,500 - $284,300/Yr

Amazon - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Senior

Herndon, VA

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Principal Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect for Edge Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is responsible for crafting cloud-based solutions and driving the adoption of edge services among customers. This role involves technical engagement, educating customers on AWS services, and establishing best practices for deploying edge services. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser, collaborating with various teams to ensure customer success and contribute to AWS's growth in edge services.

Responsibilities

• Ensure customer success in building and launching edge-services-related solutions on the AWS platform
• 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
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, blog posts, case studies, technical articles, and public speaking evangelism opportunities
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

Requirements

• 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• 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

• Mentorship & Career Growth
• Work/Life Balance
• Inclusive Team Culture
• Diverse Experiences