Senior ProServe Cloud Architect, Data and Machine Learning, WWPS US Federal

About the position

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced ProServe Cloud Architect (PCA) to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll work closely with customers to understand their technical requirements and business objectives, designing and implementing tailored cloud solutions. You'll be a key player in the pre-sales process, providing technical expertise and guidance throughout the customer's cloud journey. In this role, you'll be responsible for creating and leading the solution design to address customer business outcomes (CBO). Operating as the conduit between ProServe Account Executives and our Shared Delivery Teams (SDT), you'll ensure proposed solutions are realistic, achievable, and optimize ProServe and/or our partners to maximize CBOs. As a PCA you are a trusted advisor to our customers, providing guidance on industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative solutions to address customer challenges. As a technical SME, you will share knowledge within the organization, through mentoring, training, creation of reusable artifacts and process improvements. Your experience in designing technical solutions within the technology/consulting sector, will equip you with the ability to architect complex, scalable, and secure solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer, translating technical concepts into business value. Your success as a PCA will be linked to impacting the signing of SOWs, and the successful implementation of solutions which achieve CBOs while exceeding customer satisfaction (CSAT) expectations. The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. It is expected to work from one of the above locations (or customer sites) at least 1+ days in a week. This is not a remote position. You are expected to be in the office or with customers as needed. This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Responsibilities

• Designing complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions to deliver customer business outcomes (CBOs)
• Providing technical guidance and best practices during pre-sales and implementation phases
• Collaborating with Account Managers and Shared Delivery Teams to ensure proposed solutions are realistic and achievable
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, designing and implementing cloud solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of database (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
• 5+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced technology degree or AWS Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
• Deep understanding of AWS services across compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)
• Expertise in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences as part of pre-sales motion
• 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, and performance optimization of robust data architectures on AWS, including data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data warehouses
• 5+ years of experience implementing distributed compute data technologies (e.g. Spark, Hive, Redshift) for scalable and secure data solutions, and utilizing query engines for efficient querying across large datasets